tear

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɛə/|/tɛː/    美 /tɛɹ/|/teː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A hole or break caused by tearing.
    — A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
  3. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
    — Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.
  4. A rampage. slang
    — to go on a tear
  5. A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  6. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
    — Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]
动词 v.
  1. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. transitive
    — He tore his coat on the nail.
  2. To produce tears. intransitive
    — Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
  3. To injure as if by pulling apart. transitive
    — He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
  4. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. transitive
    — He was torn by conflicting emotions.
  5. To make (an opening) with force or energy. transitive
    — A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
  6. To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force. often,transitive
    — Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
  7. To demolish. transitive,with-down
    — The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
  8. To become torn, especially accidentally. intransitive
    — My dress has torn.
  9. To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence. intransitive
    — He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
  10. To smash or enter something with great force. intransitive
    — The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry.
  11. To be interrupted midway through. intransitive
    — torn write

词形变化

tears present,singular,third-person tearing participle,present tore past torn participle,past tore colloquial,nonstandard,participle,past tears plural tears plural teare alternative,obsolete tears present,singular,third-person tearing participle,present teared participle,past teared past teare alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
betear retear rip-and-tear tearable tearabout tear a cat tear along tear apart tear-ass tear ass tear a strip off someone tear at tear away tearaway tear-cat tear down tearer tear into tear it up tear-mouth tear off tear one's hair tear one's hair out tear out tearproof tear someone a new asshole tear someone a new one tearstrip tear-throat tearthumb tear to pieces tear to shreds tear up that's torn it that tears it torn write totear uptear war torn hot tear Mallory-Weiss tear microtear on a tear tear and wear teardown tear-off tear resistance tear sheet tear-up wear and tear tearsheet tear line angel's tears Apache tear artificial tear artificial tear drop baby's tears bored to tears burst into tears crocodiles' tears crocodile tears Dutch tear end in tears glass tear in tears Job's tears mermaids' tears move someone to tears orphan tears Pele's tear Pele's tears poppy tears Prince Rupert's tear reduce someone to tears Rupert's tear shed a tear shed tears tear blower tear-brimmed tear catcher tear dress teardrop tear duct tear fluid tearful tear gas tear gland tearjerker tear-jerking tearjerking tearless tearlet tearlike tear pit tear-pit tearpit tear sac tears before bedtime tears of wine tearsome tearstain tearstained tear stick tearstreaked teary trail of tears two tears in a bucket vale of tears veil of tears white lady tears white tears white woman tears white women's tears white women tears wine tears without tears

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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”).
Cognates
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”).
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