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Words related to tear

Related / Similar Words: bust, binge, bout, teardrop, rip, rent, snag, split, pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume, rupture, snap, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck

Definition:

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

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

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

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings";

fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing";

strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon";

to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars";

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

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

See Also: shred, tear up, rip up, pan, tear apart, trash, level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, shoot up

Hyponyms: laceration, rent, rip, split, cleave, rive, lacerate, rend, pull, shred, tear up, rip up

Grouped Verbs: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot

Part Meronyms: lacrimal secretion, lachrymal secretion

Derivational Morphology: rupture, snap, bust, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, cleave, split, rive, rend, rip, pull, teardrop, lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering, rent, snag

Anagrams: tare, rate, Tera

Language Translations:
Albanian: lot		Bosnian: suza
Catalan: llàgrima		Chinese: 撕
Croatian: suza		Danish: flå and tåre
Dutch: scheuren and traan		Esperanto: larmo
Estonian: pisar		Finnish: kyynel and repiä
French: déchirer and larme		German: reißen and Träne
Hindi: आँसू		Hungarian: könny and tép
Icelandic: tár		Indonesian: air and robek
Irish: deor and stróic		Italian: lacrima and strappare
Japanese: 破る and 涙		Korean: 눈물 and 찢다
Latin: lacrima		Polish: łza
Portuguese: lágrima and rasgar		Romanian: lacrimă
Russian: рвать and слеза		Slovak: slza
Slovene: raztrgati and solza		Spanish: lágrima and rasgar
Swedish: riva and tår		Telugu: కన్నీటి బొట్టు and చినుగు
Turkish: gözyaşı and kırmak

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