Definitions for Tare

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Spelling: [tair]
IPA: /tɛər/

Tare is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in Tare (aert).

Definitions for Tare

noun

  1. any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
  2. the seed of a vetch.
  3. Bible. a noxious weed, probably the darnel.
  4. the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
  5. a deduction from the gross weight to allow for this.
  6. the weight of a vehicle without cargo, passengers, etc.
  7. a counterweight used in chemical analysis to balance the weight of a container.
  8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter T.
  9. a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
  10. this fluid appearing in or flowing from the eye as the result of emotion, especially grief:
  11. something resembling or suggesting a tear, as a drop of a liquid or a tearlike mass of a solid substance, especially having a spherical or globular shape at one end and tapering to a point at the other:
  12. Glassmaking. a decorative air bubble enclosed in a glass vessel; air bell.
  13. tears, grief; sorrow.
  14. the act of tearing.
  15. a rent or fissure. Synonyms: rip, rift, rupture.
  16. a rage or passion; violent flurry or outburst.
  17. Informal. a spree.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of tear2 .

Idioms

  1. in tears, weeping:
  2. tear it, Slang. to ruin all hope; spoil everything.
  3. tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, anger, or frustration: Also, tear one's hair out.

Verb phrases

  1. tear at, to pluck violently at; attempt to tear: to distress; afflict:
  2. tear down, to pull down; destroy; demolish. to disparage or discredit:
  3. tear into, Informal. to attack impulsively and heedlessly: to attack verbally:
  4. tear off, Slang. to perform or do, especially rapidly or casually:
  5. tear up, to tear into small shreds: Synonyms: rip up. to cancel or annul:

verb (used with object)

  1. to ascertain, note, or allow for the tare of.
  2. to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
  3. to pull or snatch violently; wrench away with force:
  4. to distress greatly: Synonyms: break, crack, shatter, afflict.
  5. to divide or disrupt: Synonyms: disunite, split, splinter. Antonyms: unite, reunite, join, bind.
  6. to wound or injure by or as if by rending; lacerate. Synonyms: cut, mangle, slash.
  7. to produce or effect by rending:
  8. to remove by force or effort:

verb (used without object)

  1. to fill up and overflow with tears, as the eyes (often followed by up):
  2. to become torn.
  3. to make a tear or rent.
  4. to move or behave with force, violent haste, or energy:

Origin of Tare

1300-50; Middle English: vetch; akin to Dutch tarwe wheat

Examples for Tare

The same is true of the mallow, the vetch or tare, and other plants.

When it comes to a question of tare and tret, false sentiment must be excluded.

"tare ist grass and water," said the landlord as she turned from his door.

Be shure to tare this up as soon as you reade it, it's from a friend.

"'Dragons of the prime, that tare each other in their slime,'" quoted Esther.

They will not fail to gather all the wheat and to leave out every tare.

The meal of the seeds of barley, bean, tare, and white lupin.

Cousin Bess said nought, but wagged her head, and tare her flannel in twain.

"I ain't afraid; Dod is tatin' tare of me," said the child, with a little sigh.

She lifted her hand to this to tare it from its hook, but he prevented her.

Word Value for Tare
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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