Tear: alternatives and connections

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

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To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

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To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oa…

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A wicker fish basket.

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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

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of Split

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To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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To do by little and little

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A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

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In haste; foothot.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To raze.

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See Reveal.

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The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

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The act of lacerating.

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of Rend

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A wicker fish basket.

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of Split

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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of Tear

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The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

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To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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To pull; to draw.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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of Rend

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A wicker fish basket.

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The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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of Split

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