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| raven2 |
to feed on greedily; tear into. [1/4 definitions] |
| raze |
to knock down or tear down (a structure); level. |
| rend |
to tear or separate into pieces with force or violence. [2/4 definitions] |
| rent2 |
an opening resulting from a tear, slit, or cut. [1/3 definitions] |
| ribbon |
to tear into or reduce to ribbons or shreds. [1/8 definitions] |
| rip1 |
to cut open, off, or apart roughly and forcefully; tear. [3/5 definitions] |
| rive |
to tear apart; rend. [1/3 definitions] |
| rupture |
a tear in bodily tissue, esp. a bursting out of an organ, as with a hernia or appendix. [2/6 definitions] |
| savage |
to tear apart with ferocity, as a wild animal attacks and tears at its prey. [1/9 definitions] |
| scratch |
to use the nails or claws to dig, scrape, or tear. [1/22 definitions] |
| shred |
to cut or tear, or be cut or torn, to shreds. [1/3 definitions] |
| simple fracture |
a bone fracture that does not tear through the skin or result in loose fragments. |
| snag |
a tear, pull, or hole in a fabric, usu. caused by something sharp or jagged. [2/7 definitions] |
| split |
to break up or separate by, or as though by, force; tear apart; rend. [1/16 definitions] |
| strip2 |
to tear, cut, or make into a strip or strips. [1/3 definitions] |
| sunder |
to tear, force, or break apart; divide. [1/2 definitions] |
| tatter |
to tear, wear, or reduce to tatters; make ragged. [1/4 definitions] |
| tear1 |
something resembling a tear. [1/4 definitions] |
| teardrop |
one tear. [2 definitions] |
| tear-gas |
to hurl tear gas at, usu. in the form of grenades or projectiles. |
| tore |
past tense of tear2. |
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