tear
/tɛɹ/ verbo B1En español: rasgar, desgarrar, irrumpir, desgarrarse
- To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. · He tore his coat on the nail.
- To injure as if by pulling apart. · He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. · He was torn by conflicting emotions.
- To make (an opening) with force or energy. · A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.· His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
- To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force. · Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
- To demolish. · The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
- To become torn, especially accidentally. · My dress has torn.
- To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence. · He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.· The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.
He/she/it tears · Pasado tore · Participio pasado torn · Forma en -ing tearing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- tear
- He/she/it
- tears
- Pasado
- tore
- Participio pasado
- torn
- Forma en -ing
- tearing
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
- tear along To run quickly along somewhere.
- tear apart Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, ...
- tear away To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that pe...
- tear down To demolish.
- tear into To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.
- tear off terrafear
- tear out To remove by tearing.
- tear up To tear into pieces.
- tear up To start shedding tears.
De la biblioteca
Morrel,” exclaimed the young seaman, with tears in his eyes, and grasping the owner’s hand, “M.
Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.
“Nonsense,” returned Danglars, “I tell you again I have nothing whatever to do with it; besides, you know very well that I tore the paper to pieces.”
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