Dictionary Entry

tore

Part of Speech: adjectivePronunciation: /tɔː/Used In Literature ↓

Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.

Origin

Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.

Common Phrases

off toredown toreopen tore

Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.

Synonyms

Antonyms

No antonyms yet.

Poetry examples for “tore”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Inflamed with wrath : he started on his feet,
Tore the king’s letter, snow’d it down, and rent 60
The wonder of the loom thro’ warp and woof

Unstained! The Shadow was not there!
Paul clutched and tore at his tightening throat.
He felt the veins in his body bloat,

As practising how they could thunder too ;
Out of the binder's hand the sheaves they tore.
And thrashed the harvest in the airy lloor i

Her senses in a vortex swound.
She tore him loose and turned around,
And reached her chamber in a bound

Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.

He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
From the deep cool bed of the river:

Hastily that garment searching, from its depths I fiercely tore

What! is it She, which on the other shore
Goes richly painted? or which, robbed and tore,
Laments and mourns in Germany and here?

dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the crumbling bank--

"Take them all, O Hiawatha!"
From the earth he tore the fibres,
Tore the tough roots of the Larch-Tree, 60