Synonyms for tear
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : teer |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɪər |
Top 10 synonyms for tear Other synonyms for the word tear
- bender
- binge
- boil
- bolt
- breach
- break
- bust
- career
- carousal
- carouse
- charge
- claw
- cleave
- course
- damage
- dart
- dash
- drunk
- evulse
- extract
- fissure
- fly
- fray
- frazzle
- gallop
- gash
- hurry
- impair
- imperfection
- incise
- jigsaw
- lacerate
- laceration
- lash
- mutilate
- mutilation
- pluck
- pull apart
- race
- rend
- rent
- ribbon
- rift
- run
- rupture
- rush
- scratch
- seize
- separate
- sever
- shoot
- shred
- slash
- slit
- snatch
- speed
- split
- spree
- spring
- sunder
- tatter
- wassail
- wrench
- wrest
- yank
- zoom
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for tear
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