📖 Definitions of "Tear"
noun
- 1
A hole or break caused by tearing.
"A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam."
- 2
A rampage.
"to go on a tear"
verb
- 1
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."
- 2
To injure as if by pulling apart.
"He has a torn ligament."
- 3
To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
"He was torn by conflicting emotions."
- 4
To make (an opening) with force or energy.
"A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite."
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