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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Past tense of tear1.
  2. n. See torus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Preterit of tear.
  2. n. A projecting knob or ball used as an ornament on furniture, as cradles and chairs.
  3. n. The pommel of a saddle.
  4. n. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
  5. See tor.
  6. n. In architecture, same as torus, 1.
  7. n. In geometry, a surface generated by the revolution of a conic (especially a circle) about an axis lying in its plane.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  2. adj. Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  3. adj. Full; rich.
  4. v. Simple past of tear (rip, rend, speed).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. imp. of tear.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
  3. n. (Arch.) Same as torus.
  4. n. (Geom.) same as torus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column

Etymologies

  1. 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”), from Proto-Indo-European *dēwǝ- (“to fail, be behind, be lacking”). Cognate with Old High German zur- ("mis-", prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, "hard, difficult", prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dys-, "bad, ill, difficult", prefix). More at dys-. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Latin torus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. moulding
  1. molding

rhymes (103)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Boer
  2. Bohr
  3. C4
  4. Dior
  5. Dore
  6. Flore
  7. Fore
  8. Gabor
  9. Gore
  10. Igor
  11. Lahore
  12. Laure
  13. Lenore
  14. Livermore
  15. Moore
  16. More
  17. Orr
  18. Shor
  19. Shore
  20. Thor
  1. Timor
  2. Tor
  3. Torr
  4. abhor
  5. abor
  6. adore
  7. antiwar
  8. anymore
  9. ashore
  10. before
  11. boar
  12. bore
  13. chore
  14. cor
  15. core
  16. corps
  17. corr
  18. decor
  19. deplore
  20. door
  1. dorr
  2. drawer
  3. explore
  4. floor
  5. flor
  6. for
  7. fore
  8. four
  9. galore
  10. glore
  11. goar
  12. gore
  13. guarantor
  14. hardcore
  15. heretofore
  16. hoar
  17. ignore
  18. implore
  19. inshore
  20. knorr
  1. livor
  2. lore
  3. mohr
  4. mor
  5. more
  6. noncore
  7. nor
  8. oar
  9. offshore
  10. or
  11. ore
  12. outpour
  13. outscore
  14. por
  15. pore
  16. postwar
  17. pour
  18. prewar
  19. rapport
  20. restore
  1. roar
  2. saur
  3. schnorr
  4. score
  5. shor
  6. shore
  7. snore
  8. soar
  9. sore
  10. spore
  11. store
  12. swore
  13. thor
  14. tor
  15. torr
  16. underscore
  17. vore
  18. war
  19. whore
  20. wor
  1. wore
  2. yore
  3. your

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. torus
  2. tor
  1. tear
  2. tare
  1. cyclide
  2. up
  1. fold
  2. strong
  1. page
  2. sliver
  1. spiric

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