| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rip, cut |
Synonyms: |
breach, break, crack, damage, fissure, gash, hole, imperfection, laceration, mutilation, rent, run, rupture, scratch, split, tatter |
Antonyms: |
perfection |
| Main Entry: | tear/tears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion |
Synonyms: |
blubbering, crying, discharge, distress, drops, grieving, lachryma, lamentation, lamenting, moisture, mourning, pain, regret, sadness, sob, sob act, sobbing, sorrow, teardrop, wailing, water, waterworks, weep, weeping, weeps, whimpering, woe |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wild action |
Synonyms: |
bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree, wassail |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, rip an object |
Synonyms: |
break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, jigsaw, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rive, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |
Antonyms: |
fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move very fast |
Synonyms: |
boil, bolt, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, hurry, lash, race, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, zoom |
Antonyms: |
idle, wait |
| Main Entry: | blowout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explosion; something exploded |
Synonyms: |
blast, break, burst, detonation, eruption, escape, flat tire, leak, puncture, rupture, tear |
| Main Entry: | bout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of time in which something occurs |
Synonyms: |
course, fit*, go*, round, run, session, shift, spell, stint, stretch, tear, term, tour, trick*, turn |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fissure, opening |
Synonyms: |
breach, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, division, fracture, gap, gash, hole, rent, rift, rupture, schism, split, tear |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
Antonyms: |
association, attachment, binding, combination, fastening, juncture |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; make whole into pieces |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, batter, burst, bust, bust up, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, finish off, fracture, fragment, make hash of, make mincemeat of, part, pull to pieces, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, torpedo, total, trash* |
Antonyms: |
attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure |
| Main Entry: | bustle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move around quickly, busily |
Synonyms: |
bestir, dash, dust, flit, flutter, fuss, hasten, hum, hurry, hustle, run, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, stir, tear, whirl, whisk |