verb
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
He tore his coat on the nail.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
To injure as if by pulling apart.
He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
He was torn by conflicting emotions.
To make (an opening) with force or energy.
A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
[A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully.
noun
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
A rampage.
to go on a tear
noun
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.
Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]