Tear Off

Definition: Tear Off

Tear Off

Verb

1. Rip off violently and forcefully; "The passing bus tore off her side mirror".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Tear Off

Crosswords: Tear Off

Hush little baby, don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird don't sing, I'm gonna rip off his feathers and tear off his wings! (Bobby's World; writing credit: Timothy Williams)

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Books

• Extra/Ordinary Objects (2002 TASCHEN Tear Off Calendar) (reference)

• Families (2002 TASCHEN Tear Off Calendar) (reference)

• Flowers (2002 TASCHEN Tear Off Calendar) (reference)

• Garden Eden (2002 TASCHEN Tear Off Calendar) (reference)

• Native Americans (2002 TASCHEN Tear Off Calendar) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tear Off (reference)

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Let us denounce the face and tear off the mask.

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Expressions using "tear off": tear off a strip ♦ To tear off. Additional references.

Afrikaan

aftrek (absent onself, demand, depart, discount, go away, leave, pick, pluck, rebate, retreat, sale, subtract, tear), afskeur (pick, pluck, tear), afruk (pick, pluck, tear). (various references)

Albanian

shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear, tear up, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), bëj shpejt (despatch, dispatch, expedite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съчинявам набързо, скъсвам (break, fail, plough, pluck, refer, rend, rip down, rip open, rupture, sever, snap, strand, tear, tear away, tear down, tear out, wear out), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), смъквам (bring down, divest, let down, pull down, rip away, rip off, shuffle off, tear down, throw off), разкъсвам (bait, dismember, lacerate, pick, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear open, tear up), отронвам (break off, shed), откъсвам (break away, break off, dissociate, island, pick off, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear out, tweak, uproot, win away), одирам (abrade, excoriate, flay, flench, flense, raw, skin, soak). (various references)

Czech

strhnout (break, break down, carry away, demolish, pull down, raze, strip, tear away, tear down), odtrhnout (divorce), odpádit. (various references)

Danish

plukke (pick, pluck). (various references)

Dutch

wegscheuren (pick, pluck), scheiden (break up, classification, disintegrate, divide, get a divorce, get divorced, grading, remove by stripping, segregating, separate, separation, sorting, strip apart, strip off), plukken (collect, gather, pick, pick up, picking, pluck, plucking), afrukken (pick, pluck), afplukken (pick, pluck), afbreken (abandon, abort, break, break down, break off, clear, clear-down, cry down, cut, cut a connection, cut up, demolish, divide, pick, pluck, pull down, pull to pieces, replace the handset, run down, separate, share, snapping, stop, take down, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

deŝiri (pick, pluck). (various references)

Faeroese

skræða leysan (pick, pluck). (various references)

Finnish

repiä (rend, rip, tear, tear out, tear to pieces, tear up, to scarify), repäistä (tear, tear out), kiskoairti, katkaista (break, break off, cut off). (various references)

French

cueillir. (various references)

Frisian

ôfskuorre (pick, pluck), ôfroppe (pick, pluck), ôfbrekke (break, break down, break off, demolish, interrupt, pick, pluck, pull down, stop, take down). (various references)

German

abreißen (break down, break off, demolish, have down, level, pick, pluck, pull down, pull off, rip down, rip off, snap out, strip off, take down, tear away, to snap out, to tear off, yank off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתלוש (pluck, tear, tear out, uproot). (various references)

Hungarian

összecsap (clash, patch up, polish off, scamp, to encounter, to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle things, to huddle things together, to huddle things up, to huddle through a piece of work, to hurtle, to knock together, to knock up, to scrum, to skimp, to slap together, to slobber, to slubber, to toss off). (various references)

Italian

strappare (extort, extract, get torn, pluck, pull off, pulling, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, shred, snatch, snatch away, split, strip, tear, tug, wrench, wrest, yank), staccare (divide, knock off, pick, pluck, remove, separate, stand out, take, tear, tear out, to shut off, to unharness, to unyoke), rompere (breach, break, crash, pick, pluck, smash, snap, tear, violate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

引き剥ぐ (to tear off), はぎ取る (achoo!, sneeze, to rob, to roll up, to strip, to tear off, to turn over), もぎ取る (bushy, disheveled, hello, if so, in that case, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, to be torn off, to break or tear off, to come off, to pick, to pluck off, tousled, unkempt), 剥ぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥がす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥す (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥ぎ取る (to rob, to strip, to tear off), 切り取る (to amputate, to cut down, to cut off, to cut out, to excise, to tear off, to tear out, to whittle down), 引きちぎる (to tear off), 掻き毟る (to pluck, to scratch off, to tear off), 引き剥がす (to tear off), 引き裂く (to split, to tear off, to tear up), 引裂く (to split, to tear off, to tear up), 毟り取る (to pluck off, to tear off), 椀ぎ取る (to break or tear off, to pick, to pluck off), 捲る (to roll up, to strip off, to tear off, to turn over, to turn pages of a book, to turn up, verb suffix to indicate reckless abandon to the activity), 引っ剥ぐ (to tear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりとる (to amputate, to cut down, to cut off, to cut out, to excise, to tear off, to tear out, to whittle down), ひきさく (to split, to tear off, to tear up), ひきはがす (to tear off), ひきはぐ (to tear off), ひきちぎる (to tear off), ひっぱぐ (to tear off), かきむしる (to pluck, to scratch off, to tear off), めくる (to strip off, to tear off, to turn over, to turn pages of a book), むしりとる (to pluck off, to tear off), もぎとる (to break or tear off, to pick, to pluck off), へぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はぎとる (to rob, to strip, to tear off), はがす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references)

Manx

raipey neose (tear down). (various references)

Pig Latin

eartay offay.(various references)

Portuguese

tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disburden, dog, drag out, get, get off, haul, in force, iron out, lay hold of, lug, machine, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, print, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, vail, withdraw, work off, wrest), colher (American pump, bailer, Berry, collect, crop, dart bailer, drag out, garnet, gather, gather a harvest, gather information, harvest, pick, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, sand bucket, slush bucket, spoon, spoon bait, spoon lure), arrancar (abstract, cut up, disrupt, drag out, extract, feather, force, jerk, lug, pick, pinch, pluck, pull, pull out, rip, start running, take away, to blast, to dynamite, to spin, tweezer, yank). (various references)

Russian 

сорвать (pick, rase off), отодрать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otrgnuti, otkinuti (break off, nip, pluck, rip off, sever). (various references)

Spanish

arrancar (abstract, blow away, draw, draw out, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull away, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear down, tear out, tear up, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, to cut, to hit, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

Swedish

riva loss, riva av (rip off), avriva. (various references)

Turkish

yırtılabilen, koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear out, unstick, work, wring), ayrılabilen, ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

Turkmen 

sypyrmak (peel), яyrtmak (break off), ьzьlmek (pluck, settle accounts), ьzmek (extinguish, pluck), goparmak (pull out). (various references)

Ukranian 

відривати (avulse, break away, disinter, pull away, tear away). (various references)

avello. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: effort.

-2 letters: afore, after, fetor, forte, oater, offer, ofter, orate.

-3 letters: aero, fare, faro, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fora, fore, fort, frae, frat, fret, froe, raff, raft, rate, rato, reft, rota, rote, tare, taro, tear, teff, toea, toff, tora, tore, tref.

-4 letters: aff, aft, are, arf, art, ate, ear, eat, eff, eft, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, foe, for, fro, oaf, oar, oat, off, oft, ora, ore, ort, rat, ref, ret, roe, rot, tae, tao, tar, tea, toe, tor.

-5 letters: ae, ar, at, ef, er, et, fa, oe, of, or, re, ta, to.

+1 letter: afforest, tradeoff.

+2 letters: afforests, affronted, overstaff, tradeoffs.

+3 letters: afforested, forefather, overstaffs, reafforest.

+4 letters: afforesting, forefathers, forfeitable, overstaffed, reafforests.

+5 letters: overstaffing, reafforested.

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