[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tear \tear\ t^ar, v. t. imp. tore t=or, obs.
   tare t^ar; p. p. torn t=orn; p. pr.  vb. n.
   tearing. oe. teren, as. teran; akin to os. farterian to
   destroy, d. teren to consume, g. zerren to pull, to tear,
   zehren to consume, icel. t>ae/ra, goth. gata'iran to
   destroy, lith. dirti to flay, russ. drate to pull, to tear,
   gr. de`rein to flay, skr. dar to burst. root63. cf. darn,
   epidermis, tarre, tirade.
   1. to separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend;
      to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear
      the skin or flesh.
      1913 webster

            tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
      as, a party or government torn by factions.
      1913 webster

   3. to rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to
      sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
      1913 webster

            the hand of fate
            hath torn thee from me.               --addison.
      1913 webster

   4. to pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
      1913 webster

   5. to move violently; to agitate. "once i loved torn ocean's
      roar." --byron.
      1913 webster

   to tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially
      applied to theatrical ranting. obs. --shak.

   to tear down, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.
      

   to tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

   to tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear
      out the eyes.

   to tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by
      violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
      foundation of government or order.
      1913 webster
see also:
tore tare torn tearing darn epidermis 
tarre tirade to tear a cat to tear down to tear off 
to tear out to tear up 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torn \torn\,
   p. p. of tear.
   1913 webster
see also:
tear 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tear
     n 1: a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the
          lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes"
          syn: teardrop
     2: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a
        rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" syn:
        rip, rent, snag, split
     3: an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on
        a bust that lasted three days" syn: bust, binge, bout
     4: the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands
        and gave it a mighty tear"
     v 1: separate or cause to separate abruptly; "the rope snapped";
          "tear the paper" syn: rupture, snap, bust
     2: to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger
        of being torn from the crossbars"
     3: move quickly and violently; "the car tore down the street";
        "he came charging into my office" syn: shoot, shoot
        down, charge, buck
     4: strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" syn:
         pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume
     5: fill with tears or shed tears; "her eyes were tearing"
     also: torn, tore
see also:
teardrop rip rent snag split bust 
binge bout rupture snap shoot 
shoot down charge buck pluck pull 
deplume deplumate displume torn tore 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

torn
     adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury syn: lacerate, lacerated,
             mangled
     2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love
        and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by
        religious dissensions"
see also:
lacerate lacerated mangled 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

torn
     see tear
see also:
tear 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

93 moby thesaurus words for "torn":
   affected, aggravated, agonized, alienated, broken, burned, burst,
   busted, checked, chipped, cleft, cloven, cracked, crazed, cut,
   damaged, deteriorated, devoured by, disaffected, disunited,
   divided, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, embittered,
   estranged, exacerbated, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, harmed,
   holey, hurt, imbued with, impaired, imperfect, impressed,
   impressed with, in bits, in pieces, in rags, in shards, in shreds,
   in tatters, injured, irreconcilable, irritated, lacerate,
   lacerated, mangled, moved, mutilated, obsessed, obsessed by,
   patchy, penetrated with, quartered, racked, ragged, raggedy, ratty,
   rent, riven, ruptured, scalded, scorched, scruffy, seedy,
   seized with, separated, severed, shabby, shattered, shoddy,
   shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split, sprung,
   stricken, tacky, tattered, tatty, the worse for, tortured, touched,
   weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wracked

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