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Synonyms for tear
tɪərtear
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
tear
Rend and tear are applied to the separating of textile substances into parts by force violently applied (rend also to frangible substances), tear being the milder, rend the stronger word. Rive is a wood-workers' word for parting wood in the way of the grain without a clean cut. To lacerate is to tear roughly the flesh or animal tissue, as by the teeth of a wild beast; a lacerated wound is distinguished from a wound made by a clean cut or incision. Mangle is a stronger word than lacerate; lacerate is more superficial, mangle more complete. To burst or rupture is to tear or rend by force from within, burst denoting the greater violence; as, to burst a gun; to rupture a blood-vessel; a steam-boiler may be ruptured when its substance is made to divide by internal pressure without explosion. To rip, as usually applied to garments or other articles made by sewing or stitching, is to divide along the line of a seam by cutting or breaking the stitches; the other senses bear some resemblance or analogy to this; as, to rip open a wound. Compare BREAK.
Synonyms:
break, burst, cleave, lacerate, mangle, rend, rip, rive, rupture, sever, slit, sunderAntonyms:
heal, join, mend, reunite, secure, sew, solder, stitch, unite, weld
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
tear, teardropnoun
a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
"his story brought tears to her eyes"
Synonyms:
snag, rent, split, bust, teardrop, bout, binge, riprip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
Synonyms:
rent, economic rent, rakehell, snag, crosscurrent, roue, bust, rip, hitch, binge, split up, teardrop, tide rip, riptide, stock split, blood, rake, hang-up, split, countercurrent, schism, profligate, bout, rubbust, tear, binge, boutnoun
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
"they went on a bust that lasted three days"
Synonyms:
flop, rip, snag, round, bout, split, teardrop, orgy, bust, binge, fizzle, female chest, rent, splurge, turntearverb
the act of tearing
"he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"
Synonyms:
snag, rent, split, bust, teardrop, bout, binge, riptear, rupture, snap, bustverb
separate or cause to separate abruptly
"The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
Synonyms:
wear out, buck, snatch up, click, fall apart, shoot, burst, flick, deplume, break down, crack, displume, pluck, photograph, break, shoot down, lose it, raid, pull, wear, charge, bust, snap, snatch, deplumate, snarl, rupturetearverb
to separate or be separated by force
"planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"
Synonyms:
charge, deplumate, deplume, shoot down, bust, pull, displume, snap, buck, rupture, shoot, plucktear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buckverb
move quickly and violently
"The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
Synonyms:
hitch, land, jerk, shoot, flash, scoot, bear down, scud, sprout, hit, consign, excite, commove, commit, blame, film, snap, down, appoint, take, point, pullulate, agitate, load, bill, deplumate, bourgeon, defeat, rouse, buck, saddle, pull, fool away, fritter, kill, lodge, dissipate, dart, frivol away, file, bust, burgeon forth, accuse, level, institutionalize, turn on, pluck, fritter away, charge, inject, vote down, deplume, germinate, shoot down, institutionalise, fool, burden, photograph, charge up, blast, dash, send, go against, spud, rupture, pip, vote out, displumepluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displumeverb
strip of feathers
"pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
Synonyms:
roll, shoot, hook, pull in, attract, cull, overstretch, perpetrate, commit, rob, pick, snap, deplumate, rive, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, buck, draw out, pull, get out, take out, gazump, hustle, root for, bust, plunk, plume, pluck, charge, deplume, pull up, pick off, shoot down, pull out, force, draw, rend, tweak, draw in, extract, rip, displume, rupture, fleecetearverb
fill with tears or shed tears
"Her eyes were tearing"
Synonyms:
charge, deplumate, deplume, shoot down, bust, pull, displume, snap, buck, rupture, shoot, pluck
Dictionary of English Synonymes
tearverb
Synonyms:
rend, sever, sunder, pull asunder, pull in pieces, pull aparttearverb
tearverb
Synonyms:
snatch away, force away
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#94 | click | |
#233 | send | |
#246 | take | |
#281 | file | |
#311 | down | |
#364 | level | |
#438 | point | |
#677 | film | |
#773 | land | |
#813 | bill | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1022 | force | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1309 | round | |
#1323 | blood | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1618 | break | |
#1637 | rent | |
#2096 | pick | |
#2135 | load | |
#2595 | roll | |
#2664 | wear | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3496 | lodge | |
#3684 | split | |
#3810 | pull | |
#4105 | commit | |
#4158 | rob | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4822 | orgy | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5613 | hook | |
#5732 | photograph | |
#5757 | extract | |
#6303 | burden | |
#6477 | blast | |
#6542 | tears | |
#7170 | raid | |
#7199 | blame | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7432 | rip | |
#7554 | attract | |
#7585 | fool | |
#8135 | defeat | |
#8285 | buck | |
#8587 | dash | |
#8969 | fleece | |
#9356 | tear | |
#9876 | burst | |
#10713 | bust | |
#10771 | saddle | |
#12149 | appoint | |
#12745 | rub | |
#12803 | excite | |
#12920 | bout | |
#14556 | jerk | |
#14594 | hitch | |
#14866 | flop | |
#15944 | dart | |
#16326 | snatch | |
#16465 | flick | |
#17166 | surcharge | |
#18963 | hustle | |
#19308 | tweak | |
#19340 | soak | |
#19657 | rake | |
#20275 | pip | |
#21399 | slit | |
#22890 | plume | |
#23792 | inject | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#25600 | accuse | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#28901 | binge | |
#29678 | rouse | |
#32799 | sever | |
#33918 | snag | |
#34743 | sprout | |
#37901 | shatter | |
#39292 | teardrop | |
#41879 | cull | |
#43852 | spud | |
#44058 | cleave | |
#45802 | rive | |
#49275 | dissipate | |
#50466 | schism | |
#55788 | rend | |
#56541 | scoot | |
#59155 | scud | |
#66230 | splurge | |
#67452 | germinate | |
#70199 | snarl | |
#71334 | mangle | |
#72426 | fizzle | |
#76778 | riptide | |
#81532 | consign | |
#85954 | overcharge | |
#85968 | institutionalize | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#89565 | perpetrate | |
#89658 | sunder | |
#95819 | plunk | |
#107022 | profligate | |
#132897 | fritter | |
#150043 | roue | |
#186029 | countercurrent | |
#230878 | institutionalise | |
#233318 | overstretch | |
#310844 | lacerate |
How to use tear in a sentence?
It would hurt me if they tear it down.
We're starting to see more than general wear and tear. The seams are showing and you're seeing frayed edges. In some spots, it's so thread bear the underlying mat pokes through, it's been on the floor for more than 20 years. Someone did a calculation and figured about 300 million people have passed over it.
To better understand the process of forgiveness, it might be useful to step back and look at the process of holding on to anger, anger is a form of stress, and so when we hold on to anger it is as though we are turning on the body's stress response, or fight or flight response, chronically. We know that turning on this response chronically leads to wear and tear on the body.
If you look at the mechanics in terms of the strength of that new ligament that you put in, it’s pretty good, the problem is the muscle weakness that occurs after that surgery. By the time athletes are able to return to the field or court, the side that had the ACL tear is about 40 percent weaker.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone:
Why not trust the American people with this decision ? why tear up their ballots, why tear up every ballot across this country ?
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