tore

CEFRA2

/tɔː(ɹ)/

verb · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Past form of tear, meaning pulled something apart.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    Full; rich.

Examples

  • I tore my jeans on the fence.

  • The policeman tore the signboard from the house.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • /toːɹ/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. Strong, sturdy; great, massive.

  2. past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.

More examples

In context

  • The girl tore the cloth.

  • […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]

  • Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby[…]

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Origin

verb

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.