tear
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(verb) fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" |
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Related Words: cry, weep |
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(noun) the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" |
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Related Words: laceration, rent, rip, separation, split |
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(verb) to separate or be separated by force: "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars." |
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Related Words: cleave, disunite, divide, part, rive, separate, split |
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(verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" |
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Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap |
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Related Words: disunite, divide, lacerate, part, pull, rend, rip, rip up, rive, separate, shred, tear up |
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(verb) move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" |
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Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down |
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Related Words: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed |
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(noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" |
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Synonyms: teardrop |
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Related Words: driblet, drop |
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(noun) an occasion for heavy drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" |
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Synonyms: bender, binge, booze-up, bust, toot |
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Related Words: revel, revelry |
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(verb) move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast" |
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Synonyms: rip |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) strip of feathers; as of chickens |
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Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull |
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Related Words: strip |
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(noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants" |
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Synonyms: rent, rip, split |
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Related Words: gap, opening |
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