tear

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. rip, rend, lacerate, tatter, shred; split, burst, break, part, separate, remove, raze, wrench; give; snatch, race; speed, dash, fly. —n. break, rent, split; wound; crack, fissure, gap; ( pl.) teardrops, weeping, crying, lamentation; slang, spree, binge, toot, bender, jag. See disjunction, part, velocity, intemperance.

- tear down

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(Roget's IV) n.

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

n.

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

Ant. repair*, patch, renovation.

v.

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

Syn.- 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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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. torn place rip, opening, split, slash, slit.

2. hurry scramble. see rush

3. Sl. spree*bender, *binge, carousal, *drunk, party, revelry. see tears

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v.

1. rip cut, slash, slit, open, split, shred, fray, tatter, rend, rive, run, come apart at the seams, lacerate, mutilate.

2. rush fly, bolt, run, dart, hurry, speed, shoot, hustle, *zip, *zoom, *go like lightning, *go like the wind.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. A hole made by tearing: rent2, rip, run. See HELP. 2. Slang. A drinking bout: binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree. Slang: bat2, bender, booze, jag. See DRUGS, RESTRAINT. II verb To fill with tears: water. See DRY.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To separate or pull apart by force: rend, rip, rive, run, split. See ASSEMBLE, HELP. 2. To remove from a fixed position: extract, pluck, pull. See PUT IN. 3. 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.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A drop of the clear liquid secreted by the glands of the eyes: teardrop. See DRY. 2. A fit of crying. Used in plural: bawling, blubbering, cry, sobbing, wailing, weeping. See SOUNDS.