to tear is a form of:
Tear
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- (COLLOQUIAL) Tear around រត់ញាប់ជើង
noun
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- (Small drop of fluid appearing in and flowing from eyes, due to emotion) wipe away a tear ទឹកភ្នែក
Example: Eyes filled with tears, crocodile tears, tear bomb, teardrop.pl. will only bring tear ទុក្ខសោក, in tears ទឹកភ្នែករហាម tear gas ឧស្ម័នធ្វើអោយចេញទឹកមាត់
Example: He tore his shirt on a nail. - 2.
- (fissure. -tear into to assault impulsively and heedless, to attack verbally. -tear up to rip into small shreds) កន្លែករហែក
verb — past tense: Tore ; past participle: Torn ; present participle: Tearing ; 3rd person singular present Tears
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to pull apart forcibly) tear one's shirt ហែក, tear oneself away ដកខ្លួនចេញទាំងបង្ខំ, country torn by war ស្រុកត្រូវខ្ទេចខ្ទាំដោយសង្គ្រាម
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- ហែក, រហែក
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (to become ragged) papers tear រហែក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- 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.
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- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
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- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
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- The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
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- A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
verb — past tense: Tore ; past participle: Torn ; present participle: Tearing ; 3rd person singular present Tears
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
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- (TRANSITIVE) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To move violently; to agitate.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
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- cleave, disunite, lacerate, rend rip, rive, sever, shred, slit, split, sunder, wound
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- join, mend, repair, sew, unite