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Tear

noun

1.

A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands. Synonym: teardrop.

2.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split. "She had snags in her stockings"

3.

An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. Synonyms: binge, bout, bust.

4.

The act of tearing.

verb

(past tore, obs. tare; past part. torn; pres. part. tearing)

1.

Separate or cause to separate abruptly. Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap. "Tear the paper"

2.

To separate or be separated by force.

3.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down. "He came charging into my office"

4.

Strip of feathers. Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull. "Pluck the capon"

5.

Fill with tears or shed tears.

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"Tear" Quotes from Famous Books

... the easiest way out of it for everybody. Next trip to Matinicus I'll order a hind quarter from Rockland. It'll mean a little more wear and tear on the company's pocketbook, but a good deal ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... cried the man, but not so loudly and sharply; and he gazed now at the Skipper, who looked back at him in his misery; and strive how he would, he could not keep back one little tear, which squeezed itself out of his left eye and tickled his cheek very much, as it ...

— The Little Skipper - A Son of a Sailor • George Manville Fenn

... vice-residency, uncertain whether to be punished or rewarded, uncertain whether he had lost a stick or made a bargain, but hopeful on the whole, and in the meanwhile highly consoled by the boat-whistle. Whereupon he would tear himself away from this particular group of inquirers, and once more we would hear the shrill ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Latimer was a girl, there had been a prospect of a double marriage between their families, but the day that destroyed one hope destroyed both, and Dorothy Fairfax died of that grief. Elizabeth, with her tear-worn eyes, was Dorothy's sad self to-night, only the eyes did not seek his friendly. They were gazing at pictures in the fire when he rejoined her, and though Bessie moved and raised her head in courteous ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... was sore sick at heart, And from his fellow bacchanals would flee; 'Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start, But pride congealed the drop within his e'e: Apart he stalked in joyless reverie, And from his native land resolved to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea; With pleasure drugged, he almost ...

— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron

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