† to-tearv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To tear to pieces.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)] > tear apart
to-loukc890
to-braidc893
to-tearc893
to-teec893
to-rendc950
to-breakc1200
to-tugc1220
to-lima1225
rivea1250
to-drawa1250
to-tosea1250
drawa1300
rendc1300
to-rit13..
to-rivec1300
to-tusec1300
rakea1325
renta1325
to-pullc1330
to-tightc1330
tirec1374
halea1398
lacerate?a1425
to-renta1425
yryve1426
raga1450
to pull to (or in) piecesc1450
ravec1450
discerp1483
pluck1526
rip1530
decerp1531
rift1534
dilaniate1535
rochec1540
rack1549
teasea1550
berend1577
distract1585
ream1587
distrain1590
unrive1592
unseam1592
outrive1598
divulse1602
dilacerate1604
harrow1604
tatter1608
mammocka1616
uprentc1620
divell1628
divellicate1638
seam-rend1647
proscind1659
skail1768
screeda1785
spret1832
to tear to shreds1837
ribbon1897
c893 [implied in: tr. Orosius Hist. iii. xi. §3 & his æfterfolgeras feowertiene gear hit siþþan totugon & totæron. (at to-tee v.)].
a900 Ags. Ps. (1835) xxix. 11 Þu totære min hwite hrægl.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 238 Ða næddran hi totæron.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 67 Ȝet walde he pilewin & to teoren. wið his bile roteð stinkinde flesc.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2491 Heo nom hire on anne curtel. þe wes swiðe to-toren [c1300 Otho al to-tore].
13.. K. Alis. 4658 Alisaundre his clothes to-tare.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 204 Þis spirit..al to-teerynge him, wente oute from him.
c1440 Partonope 4452 Why be your clothes thus to tore?
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 305 The tormentours..With sharp scowrges te-terre his fleshe.
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv In our wanton werynge of clothes to torne.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 81 Their shields, and staves, and Chariots (all-to-tore).
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