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Tore tore

Spelling: [tawr, tohr]

IPA: /tɔr, toʊr/

Tore 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 33 anagrams from letters in Tore (eort).

Definitions for Tore

noun

1. a torus.
2. 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.
3. this fluid appearing in or flowing from the eye as the result of emotion, especially grief:
4. 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:
5. Glassmaking. a decorative air bubble enclosed in a glass vessel; air bell.
6. tears, grief; sorrow.
7. the act of tearing.
8. a rent or fissure. Synonyms: rip, rift, rupture.
9. a rage or passion; violent flurry or outburst.
10. Informal. a spree.

verb

1. simple past tense of tear2 .
2. Nonstandard. a 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 pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
2. to pull or snatch violently; wrench away with force:
3. to distress greatly: Synonyms: break, crack, shatter, afflict.
4. to divide or disrupt: Synonyms: disunite, split, splinter. Antonyms: unite, reunite, join, bind.
5. to wound or injure by or as if by rending; lacerate. Synonyms: cut, mangle, slash.
6. to produce or effect by rending:
7. 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 Tore

French Latin torus

Examples for Tore

[Me and George] met at the Venice Film Festival years ago, and sort of tore the place up.

Columnist Art Buchwald, then engaged in a long-running feud with Alsop, tore the photos up.

He tore a piece of meat off the breast and stroked her coat while she ate.

The bond was delivered to Fox, who tore it up and flung the pieces into the fire.

All you had to do when you got it inside a man was to turn it round a bit, and the wound gaped and tore.

When his turn arrived Daylyt said nothing, tore off the mask, and rent his clothes, removing his microphone in the process.

Well, I tore myself away from the dear place to get at my work.

Then he stopped, tore off his shirt, and ripped it with his right hand and his teeth into strips.

He tore out the list and put it in his pocket; then he sat for a time, thinking.

“These vehicles are just twisted and tore up in pieces,” Pennington said.