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tear

n.

teardrop, droplet, moisture, discharge, eyewash*; see also drop 1.

tear Synonyms

tear

n.

rent, rip, hole, slit, laceration, split, break, gash, rupture, fissure, crack, cut, breach, damage, imperfection.

Antonyms repair*, patch, renovation.

tear Synonyms

tear

v.

rend, rip, reave, split, lacerate, shred, pull apart, tear up; see also cut 1, 2, rend.

tear implies a pulling apart by force, so as to lacerate or leave ragged edges to tear paper wrapping; rip suggests a forcible tearing, especially along a seam or in a straight line to rip a hem; rend, a somewhat literary term, implies a tearing with violence the tree was rent by a bolt of lightning

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Another word for tear

verb

To separate or pull apart by force:
rend, rip, rive, run, split. See assemble, help
To remove from a fixed position:
extract, pluck, pull. See put in
To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt², race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour², shoot, speed, sprint, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip¹. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move

phrasal verb tear down

To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible:
demolish, destroy, dismantle, dynamite, knock down, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, wreck. (Aerospace) destruct. See help
To make defamatory statements about:
asperse, backbite, calumniate, defame, malign, slander, slur, traduce, vilify. (Law) libel. Idiom: cast aspersions on. See attack, crimes, law

noun

A hole made by tearing:
rent², rip, run. See help
(Slang)
A drinking bout:
binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree. (Slang) bat², bender, booze, jag. See drugs, restraint

noun

A drop of the clear liquid secreted by the glands of the eyes:
teardrop. See dry
A fit of crying.
Used in plural: bawling, blubbering, cry, sobbing, wailing, weeping. See sounds