“teareth” is a form of
tear
UK /tɛə/ · US /tɛɹ/ verb, noun
Forms tears tearing tore torn teared teare
- verb (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. “He tore his coat on the nail.”
- verb (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart. “He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.”
- verb (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. “He was torn by conflicting emotions.”
- verb (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy. “A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.”
- verb (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force. “Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.”
- verb (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish. “The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.”
- verb (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally. “My dress has torn.”
- verb (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence. “He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.”
- noun A hole or break caused by tearing. “A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.”
- noun (slang) A rampage. “to go on a tear”
- noun A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. “Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.”
- noun Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- noun (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- noun That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- verb (intransitive) To produce tears. “Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.”
Synonyms
rend rip rip out tear off tear out teardrop rent snag split bust binge bout rupture snap shoot shoot down charge buck pluck pull deplume deplumate displume
Etymology
From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”).
Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.
From Middle English tear, teer, teere, ter, tere, tyar, tyear, tyer, tær (“tear”), from Old English teagor, tēar, tæher, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tear”).
Cognate with German Zähre (“tear”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tåre (“tear”), Faroese and Icelandic tár (“tear”), Swedish tår (“tear”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr, “teardrop”); also Cornish dager (“tear; drop”), Irish deoir (“tear”), Manx jeir (“tear”), Scottish Gaelic deur (“tear; drop”), Welsh deigryn (“tear”), Latin dacrima, dacruma, lachryma, lacrima, lacruma, lacryma (“tear”), Greek δάκρυ (dákry, “tear”), Armenian արտոսր (artosr, “tear”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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.
- noun Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- verb 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.
- verb Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
Etymology [AS. teár; akin to G. zärhe, OHG. zahar, OFries. & Icel. tar, Sw. tår, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. der, W. dagr, OW. dacr, L. lacrima, lacruma, for older dacruma, Gr. Lachrymose.]
Etymology [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear, zehren to consume, Icel. tæra, Goth. gataíran to destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. dar to burst. *63. Cf. Darn, Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tear”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details