Definition of tear

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Tear (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions..

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Dilaniation :: Dilaniation (n.) A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.
Petrostearine :: Petrostearine (n.) A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made..
Shredding :: Shredding (n.) The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
Tear :: Tear (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave..
Tatter :: Tatter (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Elaeoptene :: Elaeoptene (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts..
Dry :: Dry (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Maudlin :: Maudlin (a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
Glycerine :: Glycerine (n.) An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin..
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..
Unroot :: Unroot (v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.
Into :: Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits
Lachrymal :: Lachrymal (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland..
Droplet :: Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.
Shedder :: Shedder (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears..
Blinding :: Blinding (a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..
"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..
Stearin :: Stearic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow..
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