Synonyms for tear
tɪərtear

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tear

   Rend and tear are applied to the separating of textile substances into parts by force violently applied (rend also to frangible substances), tear being the milder, rend the stronger word. Rive is a wood-workers' word for parting wood in the way of the grain without a clean cut. To lacerate is to tear roughly the flesh or animal tissue, as by the teeth of a wild beast; a lacerated wound is distinguished from a wound made by a clean cut or incision. Mangle is a stronger word than lacerate; lacerate is more superficial, mangle more complete. To burst or rupture is to tear or rend by force from within, burst denoting the greater violence; as, to burst a gun; to rupture a blood-vessel; a steam-boiler may be ruptured when its substance is made to divide by internal pressure without explosion. To rip, as usually applied to garments or other articles made by sewing or stitching, is to divide along the line of a seam by cutting or breaking the stitches; the other senses bear some resemblance or analogy to this; as, to rip open a wound. Compare BREAK.

   Synonyms:
   break, burst, cleave, lacerate, mangle, rend, rip, rive, rupture, sever, slit, sunder

   Antonyms:
   heal, join, mend, reunite, secure, sew, solder, stitch, unite, weld

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. tear

   Synonyms:
   rend, lacerate, shatter, sever, sunder

   Antonyms:
   mend, unite

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. tear, teardropnoun

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

   "his story brought tears to her eyes"

   Synonyms:
   snag, rent, split, bust, teardrop, bout, binge, rip

2. rip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun

   an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

   "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

   Synonyms:
   rent, economic rent, rakehell, snag, crosscurrent, roue, bust, rip, hitch, binge, split up, teardrop, tide rip, riptide, stock split, blood, rake, hang-up, split, countercurrent, schism, profligate, bout, rub

3. bust, tear, binge, boutnoun

   an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

   "they went on a bust that lasted three days"

   Synonyms:
   flop, rip, snag, round, bout, split, teardrop, orgy, bust, binge, fizzle, female chest, rent, splurge, turn

4. tearverb

   the act of tearing

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

   Synonyms:
   snag, rent, split, bust, teardrop, bout, binge, rip

5. tear, rupture, snap, bustverb

   separate or cause to separate abruptly

   "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"

   Synonyms:
   wear out, buck, snatch up, click, fall apart, shoot, burst, flick, deplume, break down, crack, displume, pluck, photograph, break, shoot down, lose it, raid, pull, wear, charge, bust, snap, snatch, deplumate, snarl, rupture

6. tearverb

   to separate or be separated by force

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

   Synonyms:
   charge, deplumate, deplume, shoot down, bust, pull, displume, snap, buck, rupture, shoot, pluck

7. tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buckverb

   move quickly and violently

   "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, land, jerk, shoot, flash, scoot, bear down, scud, sprout, hit, consign, excite, commove, commit, blame, film, snap, down, appoint, take, point, pullulate, agitate, load, bill, deplumate, bourgeon, defeat, rouse, buck, saddle, pull, fool away, fritter, kill, lodge, dissipate, dart, frivol away, file, bust, burgeon forth, accuse, level, institutionalize, turn on, pluck, fritter away, charge, inject, vote down, deplume, germinate, shoot down, institutionalise, fool, burden, photograph, charge up, blast, dash, send, go against, spud, rupture, pip, vote out, displume

8. pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displumeverb

   strip of feathers

   "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"

   Synonyms:
   roll, shoot, hook, pull in, attract, cull, overstretch, perpetrate, commit, rob, pick, snap, deplumate, rive, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, buck, draw out, pull, get out, take out, gazump, hustle, root for, bust, plunk, plume, pluck, charge, deplume, pull up, pick off, shoot down, pull out, force, draw, rend, tweak, draw in, extract, rip, displume, rupture, fleece

9. tearverb

   fill with tears or shed tears

   "Her eyes were tearing"

   Synonyms:
   charge, deplumate, deplume, shoot down, bust, pull, displume, snap, buck, rupture, shoot, pluck

Matched Categories

1. • Cry
   • Revelry
   • Rush
   • Separate
   • Strip

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. tearverb

   Synonyms:
   rend, sever, sunder, pull asunder, pull in pieces, pull apart

2. tearverb

   Synonyms:
   lacerate, laniate, lancinate, claw, mangle

3. tearverb

   Synonyms:
   snatch away, force away

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1. tearnoun

   Synonyms:
   rent, fissure, rip

2. tearverb

   Synonyms:
   rend, rip, lacerate, dilacerate, sunder, dismember, fume, rage, rave, rant, storm

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "tear":

   tear-gas, tears, rip

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How to use tear in a sentence?

1. Jean allard:

   It would hurt me if they tear it down

2. German proverb:

   Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.

3. President Barack Obama:

   What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

4. Julia Louis-Dreyfus:

   Just remember. Joe Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesnt even need tear gas and a bunch of federalized troops to help him get there.

5. Helen Beristain:

   I think our President is going to keep all the good people here. He is not going to tear up families. I don't think he wants to do that. He just wants to keep us safe.