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Definition of 'tear'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tear
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid.

2.  tear
a drop of this fluid appearing in or flowing from the eye as the result of emotion, esp. grief.

3.  tear
something resembling a tear, as a drop of a liquid or a tearlike mass of a solid substance.

4.  tear
tears,

5.  tear
grief; sorrow.

6.  tear
an act of weeping:
bored to tears.

7. (v.i.) tear
(of the eyes) to fill up and overflow with tears.

8. (v.t.) tear
to pull apart or in pieces by force; rend.

9.  tear
to pull or snatch violently; wrench away with force:
to tear a book from someone's hands.

10.  tear
to divide or disrupt:
a country torn by civil war.

11.  tear
to produce by rending:
to tear a hole in one's coat.

12.  tear
to wound or injure by or as if by rending; lacerate:
grief that tears the heart.

13.  tear
to remove by force or effort (often fol. by away):
It was such an exciting lecture, I couldn't tear myself away.

14. (v.i.) tear
to become torn:
The fabric tears easily.

15.  tear
to move or behave with force, violent haste, or energy:
The wind tore through the trees; cars tearing up and down the highway.

16.  tear
tear at,

17.  tear
to pluck violently at.

18.  tear
to distress; afflict.

19.  tear
tear down,

20.  tear
to pull down; demolish.

21.  tear
to disparage or discredit.

22.  tear
to attack impulsively or viciously.

23.  tear
tear up,

24.  tear
to tear into small shreds.

25.  tear
to cancel or annul:
to tear up a contract.

26. (n.) tear
the act of tearing.

27.  tear
a rent or fissure.

28.  tear
a rage or passionate outburst.

29.  tear
Informal. a spree.

Definition of 'tear'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tear, teardrop
a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
"his story brought tears to her eyes"

2. (noun) rip, rent, snag, split, tear
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

3. (noun) bust, tear, binge, bout
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
"they went on a bust that lasted three days"

4. (verb) tear
the act of tearing
"he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

5. (verb) tear, rupture, snap, bust
separate or cause to separate abruptly
"The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"

6. (verb) tear
to separate or be separated by force
"planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"

7. (verb) tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
move quickly and violently
"The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"

8. (verb) pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume
strip of feathers
"pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"

9. (verb) tear
fill with tears or shed tears
"Her eyes were tearing"

Definition of 'tear'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) tear
to rip sth
You tore one of the pages!; Pull it gently so that it doesn't tear.

2.  tear
to rush somewhere, especially with excitement
The boys tore out of the house to see their father.

3. (noun) tear
the place where sth is ripped
There was a tear in the pocket of his jacket.

4. (noun) tear
a drop of liquid that comes from your eye when you cry
tears rolling down her cheeks

5.  tear
burst into tears
to start crying
All I said was "maybe not," and he burst into tears.

6.  tear
in tears
crying
I found her in tears on the doorstep.

Definition of 'tear'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tear
a drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids

2. (noun) tear
something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins

3. (noun) tear
that which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge

4. (noun) tear
the act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure

5. (verb) tear
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

6. (verb) tear
hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions

7. (verb) tear
to rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home

8. (verb) tear
to pull with violence; as, to tear the hair

9. (verb) tear
to move violently; to agitate

10. (verb) tear
to divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily

11. (verb) tear
to move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave

Translation of 'tear'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a drop of liquid coming from the eye, as a result of emotion (especially sadness) or because something (eg smoke) has irritated it tears of joy/laughter/rage.
Afrikaans: traan	Arabic: دَمْعَه	Bulgarian: сълза
Brazilian: lágrima	Czech: slza	German: die Träne
Danish: tåre	Greek: δάκρυ	Spanish: lágrima
Estonian: pisar	Farsi: اشک	Finnish: kyynel
French: larme	Hebrew: דִמעָה	Hindi: अश्रु
Croatian: suza	Hungarian: könny(csepp)	Indonesian: air mata
Icelandic: tár	Italian: lacrima	Japanese: 涙
Korean: 눈물 (방울)	Lithuanian: ašara	Latvian: asara
Malay: mengoyakkan	Dutch: traan	Norwegian: tåre
Polish: łza	Persian: اشک	Pashto: اوښكه
Portuguese: lágrima	Romanian: lacrimă	Russian: слеза
Slovak: slza	Slovenian: solza	Serbian: suza
Swedish: tår	Thai: น้ำตา	Turkish: göz yaşı
Taiwanese: 眼淚	Ukrainian: сльоза	Urdu: آنسو
Vietnamese: nước mắt	Chinese: 眼泪
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