Torn

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Torn \Torn\,
     p. p. of {Tear}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  torn
       See {tear}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "torn":
     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