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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Tatter :: Tatter (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off..
Rent :: Rent (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
Lachrymary :: Lachrymary (a.) Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal..
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc..
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..
Wittol :: Wittol (n.) The wheatear.
Watery :: Watery (a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful..
Rooter :: Rooter (n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots..
Stearone :: Stearolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid..
Untwain :: Untwain (v. t.) To rend in twain; to tear in two.
Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh..
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up..
Devil :: Devil (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc..
Tristearin :: Tristearin (n.) See Stearin.
Weep :: Weep (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry..
Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek..
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..
Drawknife :: Drawknife (n.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood..
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