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Tear

noun

1.

A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands. Synonym: teardrop.

2.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split. "She had snags in her stockings"

3.

An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. Synonyms: binge, bout, bust.

4.

The act of tearing.

verb

(past tore, obs. tare; past part. torn; pres. part. tearing)

1.

Separate or cause to separate abruptly. Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap. "Tear the paper"

2.

To separate or be separated by force.

3.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down. "He came charging into my office"

4.

Strip of feathers. Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull. "Pluck the capon"

5.

Fill with tears or shed tears.

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... fate would be like that of others,—he would transfix me, and I should grow old sitting at his feet. For he makes me confess that I ought not to live as I do, neglecting the wants of my own soul, and busying myself with the concerns of the Athenians; therefore I hold my ears and tear myself away from him. And he is the only person who ever made me ashamed, which you might think not to be in my nature, and there is no one else who does the same. For I know that I cannot answer him or say that I ought not to do as he bids, but when I leave his ...

— Symposium • Plato

... enough to take the place of faith. But these constituted the peculiar poetry of her personality, the fireside balladry and folk-lore of her Aunt-Judyness; and I could no more mock them than I could mock the good fairy in her, that changed all my floggings to feathers,—no sooner tear away their comfortable homeliness to jeer at their honored absurdity, than I could snatch off her dear familiar turban to mock the silver reverence of her "wool." Ah! I wish you could have heard her tell me that I must pass through fourteen years of trouble,—seven ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various

... know how you fellows feel about it," said Quince Forrest, when the first guard were relieved and they had returned to camp, "but I bade those cows good-by on their beds to-night without a regret or a tear. The novelty of night-herding loses its charm with me when it's drawn out over five months. I might be fool enough to make another such trip, but I 'd rather be the Indian and let the other fellow drive the cows to me—there 's a heap more comfort ...

— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

... weather-beaten. The person of the old man had been familiar to Flora since she was a little child; and many a stolen trip had she taken with her brothers in his cockleshell of a boat, which, tough as its master, had stood the wear and tear of the winds and waves ...

— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... tear fell from the eyes of the mother. She stood still, silent, exerting her last atom of moral strength in ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

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