tear
Betekenis (Engels)
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- To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- To injure as if by pulling apart.
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
- To demolish.
- To become torn, especially accidentally.
- To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- To smash or enter something with great force.
Concepten
Synoniemen
be torn
rip open
cut open
chop wood
physical deterioration
in tatters
make an incision
open slightly
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
cut firewood
cut in pieces
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/tɛə/
Etymologie (Engels)
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.
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