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Main Entry:	tear [teer] Show IPA/tɪər/ Show Spelled
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:	torn
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	cut open
Synonyms:	broken, burst, cleaved, cracked, damaged, divided, fractured, gashed, impaired, lacerated, mangled, ragged, rent, ripped, ruptured, severed, shabby, slashed, sliced, slit, snapped, split, wrenched
Antonyms:	fixed, healed, mended, perfect

Main Entry:	torn
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	undecided
Synonyms:	divided, irresolute, of two minds, split, uncertain, unsure, vacillating, wavering
Antonyms:	certain, decided, resolute, sure

Example Sentences

Familiar stores are gone, and many public buildings have been torn down and rebuilt.

One disadvantage of water spouts is that they can be torn apart by the wind.

Iceland is regularly stretched, split, and torn by violent earthquakes and haphazardly rebuilt by exploding volcanoes.

Familiar stores are gone, and many public buildings have been torn down and rebuilt.

One disadvantage of water spouts is that they can be torn apart by the wind.

Iceland is regularly stretched, split, and torn by violent earthquakes and haphazardly rebuilt by exploding volcanoes.

Many dams are being torn down these days, allowing rivers and the ecosystems they support to rebound.

But his ribs were bruised, and the muscle was torn from his rib cage.

What could be better on a summer night than a simple pasta studded with juicy, fresh garden tomatoes, freshly torn basil.

Suddenly you're torn out of your suspension of disbelief by a character, mounting up for a.

But high-quality clothes are conspicuous, even when they are dirty and torn.

Across the city, thoroughfares have been torn up to make way for new bus lanes and terminals.

Many buildings were destroyed because they straddled the fault and were torn apart.

Torn tendons, muscles and ligaments plague athletes in many types of sports.

Rectangular holes in the tail show where the fabric coverings were torn away.

The announcement represented four years of soul-searching by an air service torn between today's fights and tomorrow's.

It can be tacked to a corkboard, torn to shreds, or shown to friends.

Thailand has torn up a joint maritime oil-exploration treaty.

All vegetation was torn away, leaving mud and red dirt exposed.

And it is understandable why a building which has experienced unusual horror and violence to be torn down.

Greenlanders themselves seem torn about climate change.

The posters can be torn out of the book and plastered somewhere useful.

It probably outlined the piece of torn cartilage that was laying in the spot it was torn from.

When it was a torn lump of flesh they tossed it to their dogs.

Each one is a loss to humanity, a loss to a local community, and a hole torn in the ecology of our planet".

Many families have similarly been torn apart in the continuing aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and meltdowns.

Warnecke doesn't want the termite's plumbing to get torn and its contents mixed around.

The right wing was torn completely away and tumbled end-over-end in a brilliant exploding.

The burned-out shell was torn down to the foundations, and the contractors started over.

Syrians seemed torn between their agony at the former ruler's death and their elation at the new one's accession.

From our planet's infancy the atoms that make it up have held together, even as continents have been torn apart and rearranged.

The article was unfortunately in a torn magazine and he couldn't find out its ending.

New bridges run across canyons and streams that were once boundaries for turf wars, linking neighborhoods once torn apart.

Pretty nifty tool if you're really torn between the two giants.

The imprisoned dissidents beaten to death in holding pens, some with their fingernails torn out.

Eventually everyone will be in new apartments, but their old ones will be torn down and rebuilt.

My leg was crushed and some of the calf muscle was torn off.

The ground dug up for the old building will be use to fill in the hole created when the old building is torn down.

Just a torn copy of the sales pitch crumpled in a corner.

Three of her exterior gondolas were torn away, and the airship broke in two.

Paper clips fall off, torn and folded corners don't work.

So he had it torn down and its supervisors executed.

Four hospitals in the city were seriously damaged by the storm, and the roof was torn off a nursing home, she said.

It takes the atomic material that is being torn apart and sheds it revealing an as yet effected molecule.

His eyes harden as he sees that the duiker had almost torn off a front leg trying to free itself from the trap.

Sure, you can suspend a bridge with metal rods and mend your torn clothes with staples.

It will be hard because you will be torn up inside but it will help in her adjustment.

Babies torn from their mothers' arms-to be smashed against walls, he learned later.

Some manuscripts have yellowing, torn pages with notes scrawled around the margins.

People with old spinal cord injuries have torn and detached tissues that have been encapsulated by scar tissue.

My brother had a dog that came up all torn up in the past three months.

Prefab construction tends to conjure up visions of mobile homes being torn apart by hurricanes.

The criminal justice folks wear jeans and torn tee shirts.

Another thing to note is that almost every single shoe of mine that has torn has torn around my toes.

The water meant the feet got torn up and blistered even more than usual.

The chiropractic profession is torn by these new proposals with some for and others strongly against these changes.

It's then back to the lab, where the vehicle gets torn apart, repaired and rebuilt.

Only someone completely torn away from reality could argue that.

He also has some good advice on how to repair your partnership after it has been torn apart by money and fame.

You'll be taught how to pump out the bilge and repair torn sails.

Since then, the forint has see-sawed and monetary policy has looked confused, torn between its conflicting objectives.

The entire team is now really torn between the desire to complete the experiment and the fear of losing a shark in the process.

Perhaps the book was bound to be flawed, given the pace with which today's crisis has torn through the markets.

Hundreds of men with sun-soaked brown faces scuttled past in tank tops, baggy slacks, and torn flip-flops.

One goal is to prevent older houses from being torn down.

Main Entry:	asunder
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	apart; into pieces
Synonyms:	disconnected, disjoined, divided, in half, loose, separated, split, to shreds, torn
Antonyms:	together

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

Main Entry:	charge
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	attack
Synonyms:	assail, assault, blindside, bolt, buck, bushwhack, chase, dash, invade, jump on, lunge, mug, rush, smash, stampede, storm, tear
Antonyms:	retreat

Main Entry:	chase
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	run after, pursue
Synonyms:	bird-dog, charge, chivy, course, drive, drive away, expel, follow, go after, hound, hunt, run down, rush, seek, shag, speed, take off after, tear, track, track down, trail
Antonyms:	escape, retreat, run away

Main Entry:	claw
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	using sharp nail
Synonyms:	break, dig, graze, hurt, itch, lacerate, mangle, maul, open, rip, scrabble, scrap, scrape, scratch, tear

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