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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear |
| Synonyms: | break*, claw, cleave, crack*, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab*, impair, incise, injure, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rip, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cleave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide, split |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, crack, cut, dissect, dissever, disunite, divorce, hack, hew, open, part, pierce, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slice, stab, sunder, tear asunder, whack |
| Antonyms: | join, meld, unite |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break, usually into parts |
| Synonyms: | burst, chip, chop, cleave, crackle, crash, damage, detonate, explode, fracture, hurt, impair, injure, pop, ring, rive, sever, shiver, snap, splinter, split |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | fell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chop down |
| Synonyms: | blow down, bowl over, bring down, cause to fall, cleave, cut, cut down, dash, demolish, down, drop, flatten, floor*, gash, ground, hack, hew, knock down, knock over, lay low, level, mangle, mow down, prostrate, pull down, raze, rive, sever, shoot, shoot down, slash, split, strike down, sunder, throw down, tumble |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, erect, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fragment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break into pieces |
| Synonyms: | burst, come apart, crumble, disintegrate, disunite, divide, rend, rive, shatter, shiver, smash, splinter, split, split up |
| Notes: | a part is any of the components of a whole; a portion is a part allotted to or regarded as belonging to someone; a piece is a part separated from the whole; a division is a part formed by classifying, cutting, partitioning - and so is a section, though it is generally smaller; a segment is a part separated along natural lines of division; a fragment is a small part, usually broken off |
| Antonyms: | complete, total |
| Main Entry: | rip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear, cut |
| Synonyms: | burst, claw, cleave, fray, frazzle, gash, hack, lacerate, rend, rive, score, shred, slash, slit, split |
| Antonyms: | close, sew |
| Main Entry: | rupture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break open |
| Synonyms: | breach, burst, cleave, crack, disrupt, divide, erupt, fracture, hold, open, part, puncture, rend, rive, separate, sever, shatter, split, sunder, tear |
| Antonyms: | close, join, mend |
| Main Entry: | sever |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut apart |
| Synonyms: | bisect, carve, cleave, cut, cut in two, detach, disconnect, disjoin, dissect, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, part, rend, rive, separate, slice, split, sunder |
| Antonyms: | combine, join, unite |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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