Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by great or violent haste: in a tearing hurry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Great; rushing; tremendous; towering; ranting: as, a tearing passion; at a tearing pace. Also used adverbially.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of tear.
- adj. very hasty
- n. The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
- n. computer graphics Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
- n. medicine continuous shedding of tears; epiphora
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid.
- n. shedding tears
Examples
“The Bush administration began their term tearing down the budget surplus the Clinton administration had achieved and talking the nation into a recession.”
“That is what I call tearing the marrow out of a body's bones," said”
“I will share some of those photos once I actually begin tearing apart the room a bit.”
“I look forward to the crushing array of lawsuits that bury the project and predict that they launch literally the day we begin tearing down the viaduct.”
“Screen-tearing is an issue for many Nvidia users on Ubuntu.”
“In one movie he breathed his signature bad breath to destroy what remained of Tokyo after appearing to fight a monster even more bent in tearing the city apart as a joke to consistent fans about his inconsistencies.”
“He delights in tearing Guy (Whaley) down every chance he gets, only to turn around and raise his hopes again with the promise of better things.”
“It's ironic, the political groups who claim to cherish family values are themselves engaged in tearing other families apart.”
The Huffington Post: Pamela Alma Bass: Telephone Mamas: Separating Families to Serve Our Own
“The media turned Tiger into a god of golf and now they're taking delight in tearing him down.”
“Einstein tearing down the reigning paradigm of Newtonian physics.”
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tearing’.
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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jgs's Words
liminal, luminescence, trajectory, simulacrum, thundersnow, trappings, rigour, temporality, mammalian, diffuse, tearing, flail and 83 more...
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Filth, pestilence ground to grit
Words to instill the rich graininess of being into the famished homeogenic realm
grotesque, corrosive, pungent, tearing, gnawing, suffocating, leech, engorge, slimed, decomposing, frayed, mottled and 9 more...
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Guro
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense.
nosebleed, choking, slicing, spatter, tearing, ripping, speckled, stained, gasping, gash, slit, dribble and 10 more...
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Emperor of The Air
Ethan Canin
emerged, unbroken, slapped, tearing, stragglers, crags, stamped, pulse, restored
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