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torn torn

Spelling: [tawrn, tohrn]

IPA: /tɔrn, toʊrn/

Torn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in torn (nort).

Definitions for torn

noun

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

verb

1. 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 torn

before 900; (noun) Middle English teer, Old English tēar, tehher, taeher; cognate with Old High German zahar, Old Norse tār, Gothic tagr, Greek dákry, Latin lacrima (see Examples for torn

But in 2002, the Park family was torn apart when he was arrested for illegal trading and sentenced to 17 years in prison.

They swayed, then separated as though they had been torn apart.

Enter Rumi-naui, torn and ragged, and covered with blood, with two attendants.

It was very old and yellow, and torn, too, and we could not read it.

The Oscar winning actress has been torn to shreds by the media and public for her altered face.

She put on the boy's torn straw hat, and they yielded to her wish.

Female video game developers like Zoe Quinn have been torn apart and harassed for fabricated scandals.

It's about the delicate fabric of the universe and how our fragile insides crumble when that fabric is torn.

But the upper edges are ragged, torn by a wind not yet felt below.

But the picture is torn in half by the geographic separation of the friezes.