Antonyms for tear

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : teer

Phonetic Transcription : tɪər

Definition of tear

Origin : "water from the eye," Old English tear, from earlier teahor, tæhher, from Proto-Germanic *takh-, *tagr- (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian tar, Old High German zahar, German Zähre, Gothic tagr "tear"), from PIE *dakru-/*draku- (cf. Latin lacrima, Old Latin dacrima, Irish der, Welsh deigr, Greek dakryma). Tear gas first recorded 1917.

noun rip, cut
noun wild action
verb cut, rip an object
verb move very fast

Example sentences :

No one has seen him shed a tear, of heard him utter a complaint.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

Did you read my note--or did you tear it up like the other one?
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

What could a heart then do but tear itself to pieces, think-thinking?
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

Young Lady, who reads Dickens (wiping away the tear of imbecility).
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various

At least I shall no longer have to tear my heart out, meeting Ned in her house.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

When our brethren departed, we could not tear our aged roots out of the soil.
Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There's that in his heart which can tear and rend; and there's that which can build.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

I kissed the place; for I am sure it was blistered, as I may say, by a mother's tear!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Down on your knees and tear off the label from the wrong side of another carpet!
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Or they might tire of the Nile, and wish to tear back to Cairo by train.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Synonyms for tear

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