Definition for Tear:

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

Synonyms for Tear:

• n.

  •
  • aperture,
  • abyss,
  • channel,
  • chink,
  • cleft,
  • crater,
  • blowhole,
  • cavity,
  • cranny.
  •
  • burn,
  • injure,
  • harm,
  • disable,
  • wound,
  • bruise.
  •
  • bolt,
  • wing,
  • fleet,
  • barrel,
  • nip,
  • move,
  • whirl,
  • cry.
  •
  • wrest.
  •rend (noun)
  • tear up,
  • reave.
  •rip, cut (noun)
  • mutilation,
  • breach.
  •tear (noun)
  • buck,
  • displume,
  • binge,
  • deplume,
  • bust,
  • snap,
  • deplumate.
  •teardrop (noun)
  • eyewash,
  • moisture,
  • discharge.
  •wild action (noun)
  • drunk,
  • wassail.

• v.

  •cut, rip an object (verb)
  • slash,
  • impair,
  • seize,
  • lacerate,
  • pluck,
  • sunder,
  • ribbon,
  • split,
  • crack,
  • separate,
  • mutilate,
  • sever,
  • jigsaw,
  • incise,
  • grab,
  • pull apart,
  • evulse,
  • cleave,
  • scratch,
  • snatch.
  •halve (verb)
  • bifurcate,
  • axe,
  • cut,
  • fissure,
  • fork,
  • rip,
  • bisect,
  • branch,
  • halve.
  •move very fast (verb)
  • career,
  • lash,
  • boil,
  • hurry,
  • course,
  • spring,
  • fling.
  •run (verb)
  • canter,
  • scramble,
  • bound,
  • scoot,
  • jog,
  • trot,
  • lope.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tearful,
  • party,
  • wailing,
  • sobbing,
  • weeping,
  • brannigan,
  • hasten,
  • scour,
  • Blubbering,
  • bender,
  • bawling,
  • weepy.
  •
  • indent,
  • dent,
  • misty-eyed,
  • highball,
  • moist,
  • zoom,
  • carouse,
  • flit,
  • rocket,
  • carousal,
  • booze,
  • rip up.
  •
  • pierce,
  • jag.
  •
  • furrow,
  • water,
  • bucket,
  • scald,
  • gouge,
  • whiz,
  • misty.
  •
  • puncture.
  •
  • mist.
  •
  • sting.
  •
  • knock.
  •
  • stick.
  •attack
  • charge.
  •claw
  • ripping.
  •extract
  • extort.
  •festinate
  • run like the wind,
  • make time.
  •fray
  • tatter.
  •hasten
  • step on it,
  • make tracks,
  • shake a leg,
  • make haste,
  • get cracking.
  •hotfoot
  • hightail it.
  •rage
  • boil over.
  •run
  • go like lightning,
  • tear out,
  • leg it.
  •speed
  • press on,
  • go fast,
  • cut along,
  • get a move on,
  • get moving.
  •zoom
  • shoot up.

Paraphrases for Tear:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    tear-gas.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fracture, cry, crying, deterioration.
  • Verb, base form
    lay, wear, destroy, break, demolish, dismantle, annihilate, scrap, uproot, extract, obliterate, shatter, eliminate, Eliminating.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    cry.

Antonyms for Tear:

• n.

  • rip, cut
    closure, perfection, juncture, closing.
  • Other antonyms:
    secure, weld, stitch, solder, reunite.

• v.

  • cut, rip an object
    idle, combine, help, join, cure, unite, insert, fix, marry, heal, mend, push, attach, sew, wait, agree.
  • move very fast
    delay, stay, slow, halt, walk, dawdle.

Homophones for Tear:

• Terre, TEER.

Holonyms for Tear:

• n.

  • body
    lacrimal secretion, lachrymal secretion.

Hypernym for Tear:

• n.

  • act
    rent, split, rip, laceration.

• v.

  • contact
    rive, split, cleave.

Hyponym for Tear:

• n.

  • act
    separation.
  • body
    drop, Drib, driblet.

• v.

  • body
    weep, cry.
  • contact
    divide, separate, part, disunite.

Meronym for Tear:

• n.

  • body
    water, h2o.