Tear

Definition: Tear

Tear

Noun

1. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes".

2. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants".

3. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days".

4. The act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear".

Verb

1. Separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper".

2. To separate or be separated by force: "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars.".

3. Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office".

4. Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon".

5. Move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast".

6. Fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing".

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

Date "tear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), transitive verb. [imperfect Tore(t[=o]r), ((Obsolete Tare) (t[^a]r); past participle Torn(t[=o]rn); Tearing.]. (references)

Industry

Medicine

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

TEAR

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Synonyms: Tear

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Crosswords: Tear

Portuguese (loom).

Farewell, Ethel Barrymore, I must tear myself from your side (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

We're gonna tear your head off (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Fezzik, tear his arms off. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Crepe paper is a bitch to tear. (Making Love; writing credit: A. Scott Berg; Barry Sandler)

And they could never tear us apart (Never Tear Us Apart; performing artist: INXS)

Don`t shed a tear for me (Don't Shed A Tear; performing artist: Paul Carrack)

Before you tear us apart (Quit Playing Games; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear ("Stand By Me"; performing artist: Ben E. King)

And go straight to the mall, and tear down the (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken. (references; author: unknown)

We often see further through a tear than through a telescope. (references; author: unknown)

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear. (references; author: unknown)

A good friend see the first tear, catches the second, and stops the third. (references; author: unknown)

Tear Gas Squad (1940)

Each Pearl a Tear (1916)

The Tear That Burned (1914)

Tear It Down (1997)

Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear (1988)

Never Tear Us Apart (performing artist: INXS)

TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKER (performing artist: PARLIAMENT)

Don't Shed A Tear (performing artist: Paul Carrack)

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Books

• Krondor: Tear of the Gods (The Riftwar Legacy, Book 3) (reference)

• Wear and Tear (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Tear Sheet Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Britten - Death in Venice / Jenkins, Tear, Opie, Glyndebourne Festival Opera (reference)

• Speed Gliding, Tear Up The Skies - Hang gliding at a rocket's pace (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tear From the Red (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 5100fs Lmp 1000 Lpm 110/220v 55dba Ped Zero Tear Coax/twinax (reference)

• COMPUTRACE SINGLE USER 1 TEAR (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Cocaine : Will Tear You Apart. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

President Nixon and George Meany divided by jagged tear in the paper. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'll join up if you tear it down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salinas lettuce strike, tear gasing [sic], 1936. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch coming over Associated Press. Credit: Library of Congress.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldiers in gas chamber filled with tear gas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The eye was glazed, but the tear was not dry.

It was not enough to lull the conscience with a tear and a prayer

You had a hole in your pocket. You can tear a hole in your pocket

Tear in and shove the croppers out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do not cut or tear the cuticles of your nails. (references)

Like any other organ, skin is subject to wear and tear, injury, and aging. (references)

Esophageal bleeding can be caused by Mallory-Weiss syndrome, a tear in the lining of the esophagus. (references)

Business

Growing domestic and overseas demand for timber and lumber, and lack of equipment and wear and tear of existing equipment, provide obvious commercial opportunities to exporters. (references)

Security equipment for personal protection such as guns, bulletproof vests, tear gas spray, and equipment for car protection such as tracking devices (GPS), as well as alarms and fuel-blocking systems are also in high demand. (references)

Civil Liberties

Panama

When protests turned violent, police responded with tear gas. (references)

Burkina Faso

In August 2000, police used tear gas to disperse demonstrating refugees. (references)

Zimbabwe

Police reportedly beat and used tear gas on the supporters and arrested one MDC supporter. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Later that month, police used batons and deployed tear gas during a rally of businessmen. (references)

Jamaica

Although no one was hit by gunfire, a baby was taken to the hospital after inhaling tear gas. (references)

Ghana

Some police officers gave contradictory testimony regarding the use of tear gas at the stadium. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Police fired at the protesters and used tear gas, live ammunition, grenades, canes and batons to disperse them. (references)

Sudan

There was no further investigation or action taken in the following cases in 2000: The unconfirmed November PDF attacks on the village of Guong Nowh, in which several persons were killed; the November NDA attack on Kassala in which 52 civilians and soldiers were killed during fighting between government and NDA troops; the September incident in which security forces in several cities in the north used tear gas and live ammunition to forcibly disperse some demonstrations and killed several persons; the June attack by government air and ground forces in the vicinity of a Catholic mission which reportedly resulted in the deaths of 32 persons, including of women and children; and the February reported PDF attack on several villages in eastern Aweil and Twic counties, northern Bahr El Ghazal, during which 156 civilians were killed. (references)

Trade

Uk

Prohibited imports include AM citizens band radios, switchblade knives, devices that project toxic, noxious or harmful substances (e.g., tear gas), counterfeit coins and currency, and certain types of pornography. (references)

Worker Rights

Djibouti

Police used tear gas and clubs to break up the strike. (references)

Ecuador

On July 26, police blocked a protest strike by health workers using tear gas. (references)

Brazil

Although police said that they used only tear gas and rubber bullets, live ammunition was found in Ferreira's body. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Who cut or tear away

Expressions using "tear": a stuff able to stand wear and tear ♦ a telltale tear ♦ dash away a tear ♦ glass tear ♦ hot tear ♦ Mallory-Weiss Tear ♦ shed a tear ♦ tear a hole in a cloth ♦ tear a muscle ♦ tear a paper ♦ tear about ♦ tear along ♦ tear an argument to shreds ♦ tear apart ♦ tear around ♦ tear asunder ♦ tear at ♦ tear away ♦ tear bomb ♦ tear down ♦ tear down a building ♦ tear down an engine ♦ tear drop ♦ tear duct ♦ tear from ♦ tear gas ♦ Tear Gases ♦ tear gland ♦ tear in half ♦ tear in two ♦ tear into ♦ tear into a room ♦ tear jerker ♦ tear limb from limb ♦ tear loose ♦ tear of the perineum ♦ tear off ♦ tear off a strip ♦ tear one's hair ♦ tear oneself away ♦ tear open ♦ tear out ♦ tear out one's hair ♦ tear sac ♦ tear shedding ♦ tear sheet ♦ tear slightly ♦ tear smoke ♦ tear smth. open ♦ tear smth. to ribbons ♦ tear stained ♦ tear test ♦ tear to pieces ♦ tear to rags ♦ tear to ribbons ♦ tear to shreds ♦ tear to tatters ♦ tear up ♦ To tear a cat ♦ To tear down ♦ To tear off ♦ To tear out ♦ To tear up ♦ Wear and tear ♦ wipe away a tear. Additional references.

Beginning with "tear": tear-away, tear-blob, tear-bright, tear-brimmed, tear-dampened, tear-down, tear-drenched, tear-drop, tear-drops, tear-duct, tear-ducts, tear-exciting, Tear-falling, tear-filled, tear-gas, tear-gassed, tear-gassing, tear-gland, tear-glazed, tear-inducing, tear-in-her-eye, tear-in-my-beer, tear-jerk, tear-jerker, tear-jerking, tear-laden, tear-me-open, tear-off, tear-off part, tear-out, tear-reddened, tear-resistant, tear-shell, tear-smudged, tear-stained, tear-stains, tear-streaked, tear-swollen, Tear-thumb, tear-tracked.

Ending with "tear": air-tear, non-tear, rip-and-tear, wear-and-tear.

Containing "tear": easy-to-tear-off, wear-and-tear-proof.

Afrikaans

traan. (various references)

Albanian

përçaj (disrupt, disunite, divide), gërric (rip, scatter, scrabble, scratch, shatter, slit), gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, dredge, erode, gouge, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear to pieces), gërvisht (bark, clank, clapperclaw, claw, graze, jingle, lacerate, Nick, scarify, scrabble, scratch, strum), gris (clip, rend, rent, rip, rip up, shred, slit, split, torn), grisje (laceration, rent, rip, slit, tore), largoj me zor, çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, worm), lotsjellës (lachrymatory), vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), pikëz (drop, droplet, pinpoint), shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear off, tear up, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), shkul (deracinate, drag out, extort, extract, grub, hank, jerk, pluck, pull, pull out, rip out, root up, skein, tear down, tweak, wring, yank), shqyej (disjoint, dismember, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, rip out, rip up), vend i grisur, vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, vent, venthole), lot (dew, teardrop, water-drop, weeping). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتزع (conquer, draw, exact, extort, extract, get smth. off one's hands, grab, snatch, swagger, tear out, twitch, wrest, wring, yank), ‏دمع, ‏دمعة (teardrop), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, twist), ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, vent), ‏إقتلع (displace, extirpate, extract, lift, plow, pluck, pull, root, take off, tear out, weed out), ‏بكى من الفرح, ‏إندفع بسرعة (plunge), ‏مزق حزنا, ‏تمزق (laceration, part, rend, rive, rupture, split, tearing), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, terminate, traverse), ‏قطع الى قطع صغيرة (small, tear to shreds), ‏نهش (snap), ‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear down, total), ‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏إندفاع (break, burst, dash, dive, drift, fling, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, scramble, surge). (various references)

Basque

malko. (various references)

Bulgarian 

късам се, дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hole, hutch, leak, mesh, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, vent), летя (fly, kite, sail, spin along, tear along, wing), запиване (bust), нося се като хала (tear along), втурвам се (dart, dash, flounce in, hurl, intrude, rush, skitter, streak off, tear along), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, wassail), дера (flay, skin), късам (pick, pull), сълза (water-drop), тичам (chase, course, go after, leg it, lick, race, run, run about, scamper about, scurry, skitter, tear along), разкъсвам (bait, dismember, lacerate, pick, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear asunder, tear off, tear open, tear up), скъсано място (rent), скъсвам (break, fail, plough, pluck, refer, rend, rip down, rip open, rupture, sever, snap, strand, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, wear out), устременост, ярост (Bate, desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, rave, violence, wax), съдирам (bark, clapperclaw, jag, rend, rip, slate, split), съдрано място (rent, rip), капка (bead, dollop, dribble, dribblet, drip, drop, minim, modicum, shred, tincture, vestige). (various references)

Chinese 

眼淚 , 泪花 (tears), 扯 (pull, to talk casually), 捩 (twist), �"� (break, pierce, split, thumb, to analyze), �'�� � . (various references)

Czech

trhlina (breach, chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, gap, gash, Lacuna, rent, rift, rip, rupture, snag, split), tahat (drag, pull, tote), vytrhnout (extract, get out, tear out, whisk), vyrvat (tear out), slza (drop, teardrop), roztrhnout (rift, rip, split), roztrhat (break up, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, rip up, savage, sunder, tear apart, tear asunder, tear up), roztržení (disruption, rip), rozpoltit (disunite), rozervat (rip), rozdírat, natrhnout, drásat (jangle), díra (backwater, burrow, gap, hole, joint, leak, pit, puncture, rip, split, vent), škubat (lug at, pluck, tug). (various references)

Danish

tåre, rive itu. (various references)

Dutch

vaneenscheuren, scheuren (burst, rip, split), doorscheuren. (various references)

Esperanto

larmo, disŝiri, ŝiri (rip), ŝiraĵo. (various references)

Faeroese

tár, skræða (rip), royta (pick, pluck, rip). (various references)

Farsi 

پاره کردن (Cut, Lacerate, Mangle, Rend, Rip, Shred), پارگی (Rupture), چاک دادن (Rift, Scotch, Slash, Slit, Strip, Unseam), چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Slot, Split, Suture), گسیختن (Cut, Fracture, Rupture, Snap), گسستن (Cut, Disconnect, Rupture), گریه (Cry, Greet, Sob), سرشک , دریدن (Lacerate, Rend, Rip, Slit). (various references)

Finnish

kyynel (droplet, tear drop), repiä (rend, rip, tear off, tear out, tear to pieces, tear up). (various references)

French

larme (teardrop), déchirer (tear up), pleur, déchirure (tearing). (various references)

Frisian

trien. (various references)

German

zerreißen (break, carve up, disrupt, ladder, rend, rip, rip to shreds, tear apart, tear in two, tear limb from limb, tear to pieces, tear up, to disrupt, to tear, to tear up), zerren (be draughty, drag, jerk, jolt, lug, pull, rip, shake, strain, tear at, tug), Träne (drip, teardrop), reißen (be draughty, crack, drag, draw, jerk, jolt, pull, rend, rent, rip, shake, snap, snatch, to rip, tug, wrench, yank). (various references)

Greek 

σχίσιμο (cleavage, fission, rent, scission, slit, split, tearing), σχίζω (cleave, fist, rend, shred, skive, slash, slit, sliver, slot, splinter, split, tear up, tore, torn). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"מע�" (teardrop). (various references)

Hungarian

könny (eyewater), szakadás (discontinuity, disruption, rent, rive, split), repedés (chop, cleft, crack, cranny, fission, fissure, flake, flaw, rictus, rift, slit, spring), könnycsepp (dew, teardrop), hasadás (breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, cracking, fission, fissure, flaw, rive, slit, split), folyadékcsepp, csepp (diminutive, drip, drop, globule, gout, speck, spot, sup). (various references)

Icelandic

tár. (various references)

Indonesian

sobek, menyobek (detach), mencarik (rip to pieces), cabikan (snag), air mata. (various references)

Irish

deoir. (various references)

Italian

strappo (infringement, jerk, lift, pluck, pull, rip, split, sprain, strain, tug, wrench), lacrima (drop, teardrop), lacerare (lacerate, mangle, rend, rip, split). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉤裂き (rip), 裂け目 (crack, rent), 綻び (open seam, seam that has come apart), � �れ目　 (rent, split), � �れ目 (rent, split), 劈 (break, burst, pierce, split), 捌 (break, deal with, dispose of, drain, flow off, handle, sell), 泪 , 涙 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なみ� , さばき (break, deal with, decision, dispose of, drain, flow off, handle, judgment, sell, tribunal, verdict), さけめ (crack, rent), ほ�"ろび (open seam, seam that has come apart), かぎざき (rip), やぶれめ (rent, split), へき (bias, break, burst, crime, false, inferiority complex, law, pierce, prejudice, punish, ruler, split). (various references)

Korean 

눈물 (tears). (various references)

Malay

air-mata. (various references)

Manx

skelpey (tearing), rassey (cancellation; seed, demolish; tearing, rend, rending, rip, rip up, scratch, undo, undo as knitting, undoing), raipey (gore, gore of bull, lacerate, laceration; crake, laceration; crake cry, pull apart, rend, rip, savage, snatch away), jeir (lachrymal, lachrymatory, spot, teardrop). (various references)

Maya

hat (to tear). (various references)

Norwegian

tåre. (various references)

Occitan

lagrema. (various references)

Papiamen

lágrima. (various references)

Pig Latin

eartay.(various references)

Portuguese

rasgar (claw, cut up, drag out, gutter, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, rive, tatter), lágrima (bead, teardrop, water-drop, weeping), romper (breach, break, break off, break up, cut off, cut up, disconnect, disrupt, fracture, open, part, pierce, rip, run, rupture, sever, snap, splinter, split), dilacerar (bite, cut up, lacerate, rip, tousle). (various references)

Romanian

se destrãma (fray), rupturã (breach, break, breaking, cleavage, discontinuance, disruption, failure, hole, inrush, rag, rend, rent, rift, rip, rupture, slit), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, uproot), lacrimã (crying, Pearl, tear drop, tears), forfeca (shred, slate), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, undo, unmake, wreck), destrãbãlatã (wanton). (various references)

Russian 

раздирание (laceration), драть (flog), изнашиваться (abrade, wear, wear down, wear out), истрепать (wear out), прореха (rent, rip), загрызть (bite to death), надрыв, дыра (dump, hole, jag, rent), отрывать (break away, disinter, pick off, rend, tear away), слеза (dew, teardrop, tear-drop, water-drop), разорвать (break, rupture), разрыв (abruption, break, breaking, breakup, bursitis, burst, disruption, disturbance, divorcement, fracture, gap, jump, laceration, rip, rupture, severance, split, tearing), разрывать (break, decollate, disrupt, lacerate, rend, rip, rip open, rip up, ripping, sever, severing, severs, tear apart, tear open, unrip, unripe), разрываться, рвать (belch, gather, pick, puke, rend, retch, rip, shoot the cat, torn, upchuck), рвать слеза, ободрать (fleece, skin). (various references)

Scottish

deur (drop, small quantity of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trgati, suziti (constrict, narrow, take in), suza (teardrop), razjediniti (disincorporate, dissever, disunite, divide, unjoin), poderotina (rip), poderati (rip, wear out), pocepati (rip up, tear up), kidati (twitch), iscepati (rip out), derati (bawl, scream, skin), cepati (rive). (various references)

Spanish

lágrima (dew, drop, teardrop), desgarrar (claw, claw at, Harrow, rip up), rasgar (claw, jag, rent, rip, scrape, slash), rajar (brag, bugger off, chatter, cleave, crack, gash, slander, slit, split). (various references)

Swazi

ku-dzabûla (to tear). (various references)

Swedish

tår (drop), slita (break adrift, drudge, fag, get loose, labor, labour, pull, toil, travail, tug, wear, wrest, yank), reva (crack, reef, rift, rip, runner, wound). (various references)

Tagalog

luh� . (various references)

Thai

แบ่งออก, ไม่สบายใจ (sick), น้ำตาไหลออกมา, น้ำตา, ทำให้เป็นรู, ทำให้ไม่สบายใจ, การฉีก (rip), การรีบเร่ง, ฉีกออก (rend, rip away), รอยฉีก, หย�"ของเหลว. (various references)

Turkish

yolmak (flake, pick, pluck, pull, Rive), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, wedge off), yarılmak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, dehisce, rip, slit, split off, yawn), yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, vent), yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, lacerate, rend, rip, rip up, Rive, slash, slit, squirm out of, tear to pieces), yırtılmak (rend, rip, slit), yırtık (rent, rip, rupture, slash, slit), paralamak (lay out, rend, tear to pieces), kopmak (blow up, break, break off, come off, detach, fly off, part, rupture, separate, sever, snap, split, sunder), 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 away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), hızla koşmak, hırpalanmak, gözyaşı (dewy, lachrymal, teardrop, tears, waterworks), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, whip, whisk, zoom), camdaki defo. (various references)

Turkmen 

яyrtylmak (be torn), ьtmek (pull out). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрімкий галоп, сльоза, рватися (rip, slit), рвати (lacerate, pull, rend, rip, wrench), розрив (avulsion, breach, breaking, bursting, chasm, denunciation, dissolution, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, rip, rupture, severance, split), роздирати (lacerate, lock out), шаленіти (fall into a rage, rage, run amok, run amuck), крапля (bead, blob, dribble, drop, globule, gout, minim, smidgen), вихоплювати (tear out, whip up), несамовитість (delirium, ecstasy, furor, irresponsibility, violence), пронизувати (pierce through, saturate), дірка (bore, fray, rip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chỗ rách (torn). (various references)

Welsh

ymrwygo (burst), rhwygo (rend), llarpio (mangle, maul, rend), dragio (drag, mangle), deigryn. (various references)

absciderunt, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, accipitrem, avellam, avellamus, avellatur, avellit, avulsus, concerperet, discisa, evellam, evellas, evellendi, evellentur, evellerem, evelleret, evellero, evelles, evellet, evelletur, evelli, evello, evulsa, evulsae, fletus, lacerare, lacrima, lacrimae, lacrimam, lacrimarum, lacrimas, lacrimis, laniare, laniastis, sciderunt, scidi, scidisse, scidisti, scidit, scindam, scindamus, scindendi, scindens, scindentes, scindentur, scindere, scindes, scindet, scindetur, scindit, scindite, scinditur, scissa, scissae, scissas, scissis, scissisque, scisso, scissos, scissum, scissura, scissuras, scissus, vellere. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "tear": tearable, tearaway, tearaways, teardown, teardowns, teardrop, teardrops, teared, tearer, tearers, tearful, tearfully, tearfulness, tearfulnesses, teargas, teargases, teargassed, teargasses, teargassing, tearier, teariest, tearily, tearing, tearjerker, tearjerkers, tearless, tearoom, tearooms, tears, tearstain, tearstained, tearstains, teary. (additional references)

Words ending with "tear": retear, uptear, wheatear. (additional references)

Words containing "tear": outearn, outearned, outearning, outearns, retearing, retears, stearate, stearates, stearic, stearin, stearine, stearines, stearins, tristearin, tristearins, uptearing, uptears, wheatears. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atear, etad, etag, etar, etr, etra, otera, taar, taer, taern, taero, tair, talar, tara, tarr, Tasar, tavr, tayer, teab, teaf, teag, teah, teaj, teap, teaq, teare, teark, tearn, tearo, tearra, teart, teau, teav, teaw, teax, teaz, teer, teere, teir, teja, tejar, tenar, teor, terae, terai, teran, tere, terr, tetar, teur, teva, tewa, teza, thear, thenar, Tienari, Tihar, tiir, tior, Tira, tiur, toar, toare, toeard, toir, Tokar, tolar, Tovar, trae, trar, trear, tuar, Tueart, tveir, Tvesrp, twar, tyar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rate, tare.

-1 letter: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, ret, tae, tar, tea.

-2 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: after, alert, alter, antre, apter, arete, armet, artel, aster, avert, caret, carte, cater, crate, dater, derat, earth, eater, extra, grate, great, hater, heart, irate, later, mater, oater, orate, pater, peart, prate, ramet, rated, ratel, rater, rates, rathe, react, reata, recta, retag, retax, retia, stare, taber, taker, taler, tamer, taper, tared, tares, targe, tarre, tater, tawer, taxer, tears, teary, terai, terga, terra, tetra, trace, trade, trave, tread, treat, urate, water.