Definition of tear

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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..

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Tearer :: Tearer (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence..
Stream :: Stream (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears..
Dislimb :: Dislimb (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Shred :: Shred (n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather..
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..
Lachrymiform :: Lachrymiform (a.) Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..
Teary :: Teary (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears..
Elaeoptene :: Elaeoptene (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts..
Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home..
Fletiferous :: Fletiferous (a.) Producing tears.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Rent :: Rent (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Dry-eyed :: Dry-eyed (a.) Not having tears in the eyes.
Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
To- :: To- (prep.) An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv..
Penitential :: Penitential (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears..
Seborrhea :: Seborrhea (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
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