tear

Significat (anglès)

1. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
2. To injure as if by pulling apart.
3. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
4. To make (an opening) with force or energy.
5. To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
6. To demolish.
7. To become torn, especially accidentally.
8. To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
9. To smash or enter something with great force.

rip

split

be torn

rip open

cut open

chop wood

physical deterioration

in tatters

make an incision

open slightly

pull to pieces

shed tears

snatch away

release in a cloud

be wea

be in a state in which tearing is likely

wrench apart

smile broadly

get torn

act violently

lachrymal secretion

open seam

slash though something

be split

cause to burst

water-drop

be worn through

out-of-repair

alligator crack

claw and tear

tearing rupture

lacrima

map cracking

formation of cracking

alligator-hide crack

belt along

cut into strips

fall asunder

break apart

break asunder

break to pieces

crack open

cut firewood

cut in pieces

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tɛə/

From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.