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English

Pronunciation


Verb

torn

  1. (rip, rend, speed).

Usage notes

  • The past participle of the , meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is .


Category:English irregular past participles

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Catalan

Etymology

Latin tornus

Noun

torn

  1. lathe


Category:Catalan nouns

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Norwegian

Noun

  1. A thorn (1)


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Old English

Etymology

From West Germanic. Cognate with Old Saxon #Old Saxon|torn (Dutch toorn), Old High German zorn (German Zorn).

Pronunciation

IPA: /torn/

Noun

torn (plural same)

  1. anger, anguish, distress


Category:Old English nouns

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-torn.ogg


Noun

torn n

  1. tower
  2. In the Context of rook


el:torn fr:torn hy:torn io:torn hu:torn nl:torn ja:torn pl:torn ru:torn fi:torn sv:torn te:torn vi:torn tr:torn

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Tore (t[=o]r), ((Obs.
Tare) (t[^a]r); p. p. Torn (t[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to
destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear,
zehren to consume, Icel. t>ae/ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to
destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear,
Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf. Darn,
Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend;
to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear
the skin or flesh.
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Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --Shak.
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2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
as, a party or government torn by factions.
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3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to
sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
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The hand of fate
Hath torn thee from me. --Addison.
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4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
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5. To move violently; to agitate. "Once I loved torn ocean's
roar." --Byron.
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To tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially
applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] --Shak.

To tear down, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.


To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear
out the eyes.

To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by
violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
foundation of government or order.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torn \Torn\,
p. p. of Tear.
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WordNet tear
n 1: a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the
lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes"
[syn: teardrop]
2: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a
rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn:
rip, rent, snag, split]
3: an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on
a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, binge, bout]
4: the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands
and gave it a mighty tear"
v 1: separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped";
"tear the paper" [syn: rupture, snap, bust]
2: to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger
of being torn from the crossbars"
3: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: shoot, {shoot
down}, charge, buck]
4: strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn:
pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume]
5: fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing"
[also: torn, tore]
WordNet torn
adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated,
mangled]
2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love
and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by
religious dissensions"
WordNet torn
See tear
Moby Dictionary
affected , aggravated , agonized , alienated , broken , burned , burst ,
busted , checked , chipped , cleft , cloven , cracked , crazed , cut ,
damaged , deteriorated , devoured by , disaffected , disunited ,
divided , dowdy , down-at-heel , down-at-the-heels , embittered ,
estranged , exacerbated , frayed , frazzled , full of holes , harmed ,
holey , hurt , imbued with , impaired , imperfect , impressed ,
impressed with , in bits , in pieces , in rags , in shards , in shreds ,
in tatters , injured , irreconcilable , irritated , lacerate ,
lacerated , mangled , moved , mutilated , obsessed , obsessed by ,
patchy , penetrated with , quartered , racked , ragged , raggedy , ratty ,
rent , riven , ruptured , scalded , scorched , scruffy , seedy ,
seized with , separated , severed , shabby , shattered , shoddy ,
shredded , slashed , slit , smashed , splintered , split , sprung ,
stricken , tacky , tattered , tatty , the worse for , tortured , touched ,
weakened , worse , worse off , worsened , wracked


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