Meaning

1 senses
  1. To remove by tearing.

    We tore out the old carpeting to reveal the wood floor underneath.

More definitions
  • remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Examples

39 sentences
  1. Tom tore out of the room.

  2. I felt like tearing my hair out.

    deIch hätte mir die Haare raufen können. — Waldelfe

  3. I tore the picture out of the album.

    ruЯ выдрал фотографию из альбома. — odexed

  4. Tom tore a page out of his notebook.

    ruТом вырвал страницу из своей тетради. — odexed

  5. Someone has torn two pages out of this book.

    deJemand hat zwei Seiten aus diesem Buch gerissen. — raggione

Translations

1 languages

Forms

tears out, tearing out, tore out, torn out
Base formtear out · to tear out
3rd person singulartears out
Present participletearing out
Past simpletore out
Past participletorn out

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytear out
he, she, ittears out

Past simpleLesson

all personstore out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave torn out
he, she, ithas torn out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tear out

Phrasal verbs

8 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtearout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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