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1. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
   "she was in tears"
   - crying, weeping

1. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
   - teardrop

1. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
   - rip, rent, snag, split
    
2. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
   - bust, binge, bout
    
3. The act of tearing
   "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

1. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
   "tear the paper"
   - rupture, snap, bust
    
2. To separate or be separated by force
    
3. Move quickly and violently
   "The car tore down the street"
   - shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit]
    
4. Strip of feathers
   - pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume

1. Fill with tears or shed tears

Sounds like: tiers or tares

See also: lachrymal, lachrymatory, tear apart, tear down, tear up, tearing

Type of: activity, belt along, bodily function, bodily process, body process, bucket along, cannonball along, cry, disunite, divide, drib, driblet, drop, gap, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, opening, part, pelt along, race, revel, revelry, rush, rush along, separate, separation, speed, step on it, strip, weep

Part of: lachrymal secretion, lacrimal secretion

Encyclopedia: Tear