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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rip, cut |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, crack, damage, fissure, gash, hole, imperfection, laceration, mutilation, rent, run, rupture, scratch, split, tatter |
| Antonyms: | perfection |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, rip an object |
| Synonyms: | break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, jigsaw, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rive, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move very fast |
| Synonyms: | boil, bolt, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, hurry, lash, race, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, zoom |
| Antonyms: | idle, wait |
| Main Entry: | tear/tears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, crying, discharge, distress, drops, grieving, lachryma, lamentation, lamenting, moisture, mourning, pain, regret, sadness, sob, sob act, sobbing, sorrow, teardrop, wailing, water, waterworks, weep, weeping, weeps, whimpering, woe |
| Main Entry: | blowout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explosion; something exploded |
| Synonyms: | blast, break, burst, detonation, eruption, escape, flat tire, leak, puncture, rupture, tear |
| Main Entry: | bout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of time in which something occurs |
| Synonyms: | course, fit*, go*, round, run, session, shift, spell, stint, stretch, tear, term, tour, trick*, turn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fissure, opening |
| Synonyms: | breach, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, division, fracture, gap, gash, hole, rent, rift, rupture, schism, split, tear |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | association, attachment, binding, combination, fastening, juncture |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; make whole into pieces |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, batter, burst, bust, bust up, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, finish off, fracture, fragment, make hash of, make mincemeat of, part, pull to pieces, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, torpedo, total, trash* |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bustle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move around quickly, busily |
| Synonyms: | bestir, dash, dust, flit, flutter, fuss, hasten, hum, hurry, hustle, run, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, stir, tear, whirl, whisk |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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