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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Untwain :: Untwain (v. t.) To rend in twain; to tear in two.
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped..
Unroot :: Unroot (v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.
Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Tristearate :: Tristearate (n.) Tristearin.
Margarin :: Margarin (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin..
Rain :: Rain (n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes..
Dilacerate :: Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Totear :: Totear (v. t.) To tear or rend in pieces.
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..
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..
Tearpit :: Tearpit (n.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
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..
Whitetail :: Whitetail (n.) The wheatear.
Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair..
Teary :: Teary (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.
Laniary :: Laniary (a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth..
Abrupt :: Abrupt (v. t.) To tear off or asunder.
Pseudosphere :: Pseudosphere (n.) The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.
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..
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