Tearing

Definition: Tearing

Tearing

Adjective

1. Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions".

Noun

1. Shedding tears.

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

Date "tearing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Industry

Post & Telecom

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Synonyms: Tearing

Excitability

Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger.

Crosswords: Tearing

So, if you're frightened of dying and and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away (Jacob's Ladder; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin)

It's a tiger, tearing me apart; but I am the tiger (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard; Paul Éluard)

Oh, the flesh will be tearing at the opera house tonight (Aeon Flux; writing credit: Mario Sábato)

I feel my eyes tearing up. What should I do with my eyes (Deserto rosso, Il; writing credit: Michelangelo Antonioni; Tonino Guerra)

You're tearing me apart (Rebel Without a Cause; writing credit: Nicholas Ray; Irving Shulman)

Keep us from tearing apart (I Drove All Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

These foolish games are tearing me (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel)

From tearing us apart (Too Bad; performing artist: Nickelback)

Runaway train, tearing up the track (Runaway Train; performing artist: Soul Asylum)

It's tearing me apart (Linger; performing artist: The Cranberries)

Tearing Through (1925)

Paper Tearing (1908)

Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898)

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Books

• A New Kind of Party Animal: How the Young Are Tearing Up the American Political Landscape (reference)

• Get Through Childbirth in One Piece!: How to Prevent Episiotomies and Tearing (reference)

• 'N Sync: Tearing Up Our Hearts (reference)

• Tearing Down the Color Bar (reference)

• Tearing Down the Curtain, Opening the Gates: Northern Boundaries in Change (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Imagine him on a slushy, snowy night-- tearing out those packages. Credit: Library of Congress.

Do you fellows have any more bright ideas on how to help the war effort by tearing up park areas?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bloodhounds tearing an Indian to pieces / J.W. Orr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tearing down a house to be moved out of the Santee Cooper basin near Bonneau, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lennox Furnace Co. Tearing down furnace for shipment. Credit: Library of Congress.

Poster showing stick people tearing advertisement off wall and billboards advertising cigarettes on a city wall in Germany. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

I have tried to break this cord, I have pulled upon it, it held firmly, it did not snap, I was tearing my heart out with it.

Wilson, tearing a slab of meat with his teeth, sighed with contentment

By good fortune he had been so well taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing my clothes

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Health

This, in turn, makes them more delicate and susceptible to tearing and infection. (references)

Additional symptoms have included excessive tearing of the eyes, light sensitivity, and diarrhea. (references)

Other infrequent local complications include ectropion and lagophthalmos leading to exposure keratopathy and tearing. (references)

Economic History

Poland

The changes in agriculture are likely to strain Poland's social fabric, tearing at the heart of the traditional, family-based small farm as the younger generation drifts toward the cities. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

The security forces inconsistently enforced a no-tolerance policy against flying the Papuan flag, tearing down and destroying flags and flag poles, and killing eight persons, and beating others who tried to raise or protect the flag prior to the signing into law of the Papua Special Autonomy Law, which permits the flying of the flag as a cultural symbol. (references)

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

Expressions using "tearing": a tearing hurry ♦ come tearing ♦ Corneal tearing ♦ lug tearing ♦ tearing down ♦ tearing hurry ♦ tearing off ♦ tearing pff ♦ tearing strength ♦ tearing to pieces ♦ tread tearing. Additional references.

Beginning with "tearing": tearing-apart.

Ending with "tearing": chest-tearing, cloth-tearing, gut-tearing, hair-tearing, half-tearing, heart-tearing, muscle-tearing, nerve-tearing, throat-tearing, tyre-tearing.

Albanian

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, tear, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), marramendës (dizzy, giddy, heady, vertiginous), i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, darting, dashing, drastic, explosive, impetuous, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, sweeping, tearaway, thrifty, vehement, vigorous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزن عميق, ‏تمزيق (laceration, rending, ripping, rupture, shredding, slit), ‏تمزق (laceration, part, rend, rive, rupture, split, tear), ‏تمزف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

яростен (furious, irate, ireful, mad, rabid, raging, rampant, thundering, towering, violent), раздиращ, главоломен (breakneck), бесен (demonic, mad, rabid, raging, violent, wild). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�毁 (tore, torn). (various references)

Danish

udrivning svigtende synkronisering, oprift (pick-up, riving ahead). (various references)

Dutch

trekken van de lijnen, vertikale golfvorming, scheuren van het beeld, scheur (burst, crack, tear), het scheuren (riving ahead). (various references)

Finnish

repiminen. (various references)

French

déchirure (tear). (various references)

German

zerreißend (disrupting, ripping, rupturing, snagging), Zeilenversatz, Zeilenreißen, Zeilenausreißen, Vorspalten (riving ahead), reißend (massive, raging, rapacious, rapid, ripping, searing, torrential, wrenching), Reißen (be draughty, crack, drag, draw, jerk, jolt, pull, rend, rent, rip, shake, snap, snatch, tear, to rip, tug, wrench, yank), rasend (berserk, burning, desperate, excruciating, frenetic, frenzied, furious, infuriated, livid, rabid, racking, raging, rapturous, raving, scorching, splitting, terrific, wild), losreißend (unsnapping), durchreissend. (various references)

Greek 

σχίσιμο (cleavage, fission, rent, scission, slit, split, tear), διάρρηξις (riving ahead). (various references)

Hebrew 

קריע�" (rending), עז (cordial, fervent, fierce, goat, intense, mighty, powerful, strong), בזיע�" (rending), טריפ�" (beating of eggs, rending), � מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, snappy, spirited, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous). (various references)

Hungarian

kínzó (acute, agonizing, crucifying, excessive, excruciating, killing, obsessive, racking, to keep sy on tenterhooks, tormentor, torturer). (various references)

Italian

strappo (infringement, jerk, lift, pluck, pull, rip, split, sprain, strain, tear, tug, wrench), sfilacciatura (riving ahead, shredding of fibres), lacerazione (laceration, suffering, torment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ばら荷 (a person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else, actively, alertly, blinking with surprise, bulk goods, crispy, crunching, first-class, flapping open and closed, gaping, in a flash, nimbly, rapidly, skips-most-stations Toukai-line shinkansen, slap, snapping or biting into, snappingsound, suddenly, to be exposed, to leak out, twitching, work hard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばりばり (actively, crunching, work hard). (various references)

Korean 

찢음 (RIP, ripping, RIPS). (various references)

Manx

skelpey (tear). (various references)

Pig Latin

earingtay.(various references)

Portuguese

tremendo (frightful, parlous, terrible, terrific, tremendous), violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent, virulent), impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, riotous, slapdash, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), furioso (angry, berserk, delirious, distracted, furious, hot, mad, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, raving, savage, violent, wilding), efeito bandeira, dilacerante, arrepelado (riving ahead). (various references)

Romanian

rupere (alienation, break down, breakage, laceration, rent, rupture, split). (various references)

Russian 

неистовый (boisterous, dithyrambic, frantic, frenetic, furious, outrageous, rampageous, rampant, towering, vehement). (various references)

Scottish

racadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razjaren (enraged, furious, grim, incensed, raging, rampageous), koji cepa, gnevan (angry, wrathful, wroth), cepanje (rip up, splitting). (various references)

Spanish

efecto bandera, desgarre (riving ahead, tear). (various references)

Swedish

våldsam (ferocious, heavy, hurly burly, impetuous, intemperate, intense, passionate, savage, slashing, swingeing, tremendous, turbulent, vehement, vicious, violent), rasande (apoplectic, delirous, enraged, frantic, furious, furiously, irate, ireful, livid, raging, savage, up in the air, wild), fruktansvärd (awful, fearful, formidable, heinous, horrible, redoubtable, terrible, terrific). (various references)

Turkish

müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), çılgınca (far out, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, like mad, wild). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xé rách dữ dội, sự xé rách, sự xé nát, nhanh (apace, brisk, cursory, quick, quickly, rapid, short order, transient, volant), mạnh mau, l� m rách, hung dữ (boisterous, fierce, rough, towering), cu�"ng (mad, maniacal). (various references)

scissura. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "tearing": retearing, uptearing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atabrin, Tabarin, Tarango, tealing, teating, teaying, teering, tering, terping, Tidarren, traurig. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: granite, gratine, ingrate, tangier.

-1 letter: aigret, argent, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gratin, ingate, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, retain, retina, taring, triage.

-2 letters: agent, anger, antre, entia, garni, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, range, regna, reign, renig, retag, retia, riant, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, trine.

+1 letter: aerating, alerting, altering, angriest, argentic, astringe, averting, berating, catering, creating, derating, earthing, emigrant, ganister, gantries, gnattier, gradient, granites, gratinee, grievant, hearting, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, rangiest, reacting, rebating, redating, relating, remating, retaking, retaping, retaxing, tabering, tanglier, tapering, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vintager, watering.

+2 letters: accreting, adverting, agentries, antiglare, aragonite, argentine, argentite, arresting, asserting, astringed, astringes, bantering, bartering, battering, betraying, breasting, breathing, cantering, carpeting, centigram, cratering, cremating, denigrate, departing, deratting, earthling, emigrants, estraying, faltering, fathering, featuring, ganisters, gannister, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, germinate, gnarliest, gradients, grainiest, granulite, gratineed, gratinees, grievants, haltering, ingathers, ingrafted, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, iterating, lathering, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nattering, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, operating, orangiest, originate, paltering, parenting, pargeting, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, rabbeting, racketing, rattening, rebaiting, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, reflating, regrating, reheating, repasting, repeating, replating, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, seriating, serrating, signature, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, triangles, uptearing, vintagers, waterings, wreathing, yattering.