Definition of tear

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Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

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Lanciname :: Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Beweep :: Beweep (v. t.) To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
Teary :: Teary (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.
Grate :: Grate (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity..
Lachrymose :: Lachrymose (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..
Repentant :: Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes..
Stearic :: Stearate (n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates..
Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..
Stethograph :: Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti..
Lacerate :: Lacerate (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart..
Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
Mangle :: Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails..
Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes..
Suffusion :: Suffuse (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes..
Weep :: Weep (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy..
Tire :: Tire (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does..
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing..
Sob :: Sob (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath..
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