tear, rip, rend, split, cleave, rive mean to separate forcibly. tear implies pulling apart by force and leaving jagged edges. rip implies a pulling apart in one rapid uninterrupted motion often along …

TEAR definition: 1. to pull or be pulled apart, or to pull pieces off: 2. to move very quickly: 3. a hole in a…. Learn more.

(tear as in teardrop) a drop of the saline solution that is secreted by the lacrimal glands: I won’t shed a tear if you go.

If you tear paper, cloth, or another material, or if it tears, you pull it into two pieces or you pull it so that a hole appears in it.

Tear and wear (see Wear); Tear one's self away, to go off with great unwillingness; Tear the hair, to pull the hair in a frenzy of grief or rage; Tear up, to remove from a fixed state by violence: to …

There are three basic types of tears: basal, reflex and emotional. [3] In healthy mammalian eyes, the cornea is continually kept wet and nourished by basal tears. They lubricate the eye and …

Tear definition: To make (an opening) in something by pulling it apart or by accident.

Definition of tear verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Tear, rend, rip mean to pull apart. To tear is to split the fibers of something by pulling apart, usually so as to leave ragged or irregular edges: to tear open a letter. Rend implies force or …

TEAR meaning: 1. to pull paper, cloth, etc into pieces, or to make a hole in it by accident: 2. If paper, cloth…. Learn more.