tear

tear is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
2. noun. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
3. noun. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
6. transitive verb. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
7. transitive verb. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
8. transitive verb. To move violently; to agitate.
9. intransitive verb. To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
10. intransitive verb. To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
11. noun. The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
12. noun. the act of tearing

    "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

13. noun. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

    "they went on a bust that lasted three days"

    Synonyms: binge, bout, bust

14. noun. a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands

    "his story brought tears to her eyes"

    Synonyms: teardrop

15. noun. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"

    "she had snags in her stockings"

    Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split

16. verb. fill with tears or shed tears

    "Her eyes were tearing"

17. verb. strip of feathers

    "pull a chicken"

    "pluck the capon"

    Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull

18. verb. to separate or be separated by force

    "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"

19. verb. separate or cause to separate abruptly

    "The rope snapped"

    "tear the paper"

    Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap

20. verb. move quickly and violently

    "The car tore down the street"

    "He came charging into my office"

    Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot

Synonyms

binge, bout, bust, teardrop, rent, rip, snag, split, deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull, rupture, snap, buck, charge, shoot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tear:

aret, arte, erat, rate, tare, tera

Common word forms

tears, teared, tearer, tearful, tearing, tearable, tearless

Words from these letters

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