All tear synonyms
tear
T t verb tear
- weeded β a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
- boogieing β Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- bestirred β to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
- look daggers β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- careered β an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- dart β If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
- whacked β exhausted; tired out.
- boil over β When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- whip β to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- dichotomized β Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- hulled β retaining the hull during threshing; having a persistent enclosing hull: hulled wheat.
- make it snappy β apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- zip β zip code.
- hasten β to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- barrelled β a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- make haste β swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- go all out β make a full effort
- branching β the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- go whole hog β Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
- factoring β one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- get it β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- bustle β If someone bustles somewhere, they move there in a hurried way, often because they are very busy.
- career β A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
- lose no time β act without delay
- claw β The claws of a bird or animal are the thin, hard, curved nails at the end of its feet.
- excorticate β (obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
- burn up β If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- fly β to move through the air using wings.
- hulling β the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- whisk β to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
- barreled β Having the specified number of barrels.
- hurtle β to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- hasting β swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
noun tear
- hernia β the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- keening β a wailing lament for the dead.
- laceration β the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- herniation β to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- irascibleness β The state of being irascible; irascibility.
- bacchanalia β orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus
- opening β an open or clear space.
- carouse β If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves.
- drunk β being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- flat tire β a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
- foramen β an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- driblet β a small portion or part.
- dissipation β the act of dissipating.
- lamentation β the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- keyhole β a hole for inserting a key in a lock, especially one in the shape of a circle with a rectangle having a width smaller than the diameter of the circle projecting from the bottom.