Antonyms for tear


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : teer
Phonetic Transcription : tɪər


Definition of tear

Origin :
  • "water from the eye," Old English tear, from earlier teahor, tæhher, from Proto-Germanic *takh-, *tagr- (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian tar, Old High German zahar, German Zähre, Gothic tagr "tear"), from PIE *dakru-/*draku- (cf. Latin lacrima, Old Latin dacrima, Irish der, Welsh deigr, Greek dakryma). Tear gas first recorded 1917.
  • noun rip, cut
  • noun wild action
  • verb cut, rip an object
  • verb move very fast
Example sentences :
  • No one has seen him shed a tear, of heard him utter a complaint.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Did you read my note--or did you tear it up like the other one?
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • What could a heart then do but tear itself to pieces, think-thinking?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Young Lady, who reads Dickens (wiping away the tear of imbecility).
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various
  • At least I shall no longer have to tear my heart out, meeting Ned in her house.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • When our brethren departed, we could not tear our aged roots out of the soil.
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There's that in his heart which can tear and rend; and there's that which can build.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • I kissed the place; for I am sure it was blistered, as I may say, by a mother's tear!
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Down on your knees and tear off the label from the wrong side of another carpet!
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • Or they might tire of the Nile, and wish to tear back to Cairo by train.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Synonyms for tear

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