Definition of Tear

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Definition of Tear

Tear

A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

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.

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

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.

Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

To move violently; to agitate.

To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

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Tear Quotations

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Gilda Radner

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tear Translations

tear in Afrikaans is traan
tear in Dutch is vaneenscheuren, doorscheuren
tear in Italian is crepatura, lacrima

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