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1. Commonly the lowest moulding at the base of a column
   - torus

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], scream
    
4. Strip of feathers
   "tear the capon"
   - pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume

1. Fill with tears or shed tears

Sounds like: tor, torr

Derived forms: tores

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

Type of: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, cry, disunite, divide, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, molding [N. Amer], moulding [Brit, Cdn], part, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, separate, speed, step on it, strip, travel rapidly, weep, zip

Encyclopedia: Tear