1. Commonly the lowest moulding at the base of a column
   - torus

1. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
   "tear the paper"
   - rupture, snap, bust 
2. To separate or be separated by force 
3. Move quickly and violently
   "The car tore down the street"
   - shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit] 
4. Strip of feathers
   - pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume

1. Fill with tears or shed tears

Sounds like: tor, torr

Derived forms: tores

See also: tear apart, tear down, tear up, tearing

Type of: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, cry, disunite, divide, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, molding [N. Amer], moulding [Brit, Cdn], part, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, separate, speed, step on it, strip, weep

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