tore
tawr
- n commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
- v separate or cause to separate abruptly
- v to separate or be separated by force
- v move quickly and violently
The car tore down the street - v strip of feathers
- v fill with tears or shed tears
- Vultures tore into the rapidly putrefying corpses (among them, the bodies of many women children).
- The string of ferocious storms left 13 dead across Tennessee, including 10 who died when a tornado tore through Madison County and downtown Jackson.
- One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads.