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TO TEAR UP

Definition: TO TEAR UP

TO TEAR UP

1. To rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO TEAR UP

English words defined with "TO TEAR UP": AraceDisrootto pluck upUnroot, Uptear. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO TEAR UP

Language Translations for "TO TEAR UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

zerreißen (break, carve up, disrupt, ladder, rend, rip, rip to shreds, tear, tear apart, tear in two, tear limb from limb, tear to pieces, tear up, to disrupt, to tear). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitép (extract, pull up, rip out, to extract, to pluck out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off), kettészakít (to tear across), felszaggat (to plough up), összetép. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

掘"す (to dig up, to turn up), 掘り"す (to dig up, to turn up), 引裂く (to split, to tear off), 引き裂く (to split, to tear off), り"す (to dig up, to turn up). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひきさく (to split, to tear off), ほりかえす (to dig up, to turn up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay eartay upay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO TEAR UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outrate.

-2 letters: outate, outeat, patter, potter, pouter, protea, prutot, putter, rotate, roupet, tauter, teapot, touter, troupe, uprate, uptear, uptore.

-3 letters: aport, apter, erupt, oater, opera, orate, ottar, otter, outer, outre, pareo, pareu, pater, peart, petto, prate, pruta, putto, repot, rotte, route, taper, tarot, tater, taupe, tetra, toper, torte, toter, trapt, treat, trope, trout.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-o-p-r-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: petrolatum, reputation, waterspout.

 

+3 letters: counterpart, importunate, permutation, perpetuator, petrolatums, portmanteau, portraiture, protuberant, reputations, vituperator, waterspouts.

 

+4 letters: autotrophies, counterparts, permutations, perpetuation, perpetuators, perturbation, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, portraitures, postfracture, postgraduate, putrefaction, reputational, superpatriot, superstation, vituperation, vituperators, vituperatory.

 

+5 letters: expostulatory, importunately, naturopathies, permutational, perpetuations, perturbations, postfractures, postgraduates, pretournament, protuberantly, putrefactions, recomputation, repunctuation, superfetation, superpatriots, superstations, vituperations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO TEAR UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      54 45 41 52      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0045 0041 0052      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544925439355225550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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