- tear
- tear [n1] rip, cut breach, break, crack, damage, fissure, gash, hole, imperfection, laceration, mutilation, rent, run, rupture, scratch, split, tatter; concept 513 —Ant. perfection tear / tears [n2] droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion blubbering*, crying, discharge, distress, drops, grieving, lachryma, lamentation, lamenting, moisture, mourning, pain, regret, sadness, sob, sob act*, sobbing, sorrow, teardrop, wailing, water, waterworks*, weep, weeping, weeps*, whimpering, woe; concepts 185,467 tear [n3] wild action bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree, wassail; concepts 383,384 tear [v1] cut, rip an object break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rive, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank; concepts 206,214 —Ant. fix, mend, sew tear [v2] move very fast boil, bolt, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, hurry, lash, race, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, zoom; concepts 150,152 —Ant. idle, wait
New thesaurus. 2014.