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TEARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shedding tears
Synonyms:
lachrymation; lacrimation; tearing; watering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("tearing" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Derivation:
tear (fill with tears or shed tears)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
Example:
violent passions
Synonyms:
fierce; tearing; trigger-happy; vehement; violent
Classified under:
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb tear
Context examples:
By good fortune he had been so well taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing my clothes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Tearing or disruption of the ovarian tissue.
(Ovarian Rupture, NCI Thesaurus)
“What think you of this, young sir?” asked the painter, tearing off the cloth which concealed the flat object which he had borne beneath his arm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here he was interrupted by a loud report, and a cannonball came tearing through the trees and pitched in the sand not a hundred yards from where we two were talking.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Every man was tearing himself loose, even Matthewson.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
On seeing me, he darted towards me, and tearing the girl from my arms, hastened towards the deeper parts of the wood.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With the flushed, dazed face of a man who is just recovering from recent intoxication, the landlord was tearing madly about, his hat gone, and his hair and beard flying in the wind.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Laceration or tearing of the walls of the heart, of the interatrial or interventricular septum, of the papillary muscles or chordae tendineae, or of any of the valves of the heart.
(Cardiac Rupture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
