tear

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(senseid) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.

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(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
(senseid) To injure as if by pulling apart.
To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
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To demolish.
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To smash or enter something with great force.
A hole or break caused by tearing.

''A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.''

''to go on a tear''

(senseid) A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
(quote-book) / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
(RQ:Allingham China Governess) I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children".(nb..)'
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
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To produce tears.

''Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.''

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(l) (drop of liquid from the tear duct)
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1878, Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins, ''O hellenismo e a civilisação christan'', publ. by the widow Bertand & Co., page 24.

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