tore

«tore» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of «tear»: pulled something apart or made a hole… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, past tense of «tear» (tear, tears, tore, torn, tearing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tore is the past of «tear»: pulled something apart or made a hole or rip in it. tree →

2) Tore also means moved very fast in a wild way: «he tore down the street». tree →

3) Tore up means ripped into pieces; tore down means destroyed a building or pulled something down. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories «tore» shows rough or fast action: «she tore open the letter», «the dog tore across the field». In everyday life a shirt «tore» on a nail. In science, materials that tear easily (paper, tissue) are compared with strong ones. Phrases: «tore open», «tore up», «tore down», «tore off», «tore a muscle».

examples

• I tore my jeans on the fence. tree →
• She tore open her birthday present. tree →
• The dog tore across the park. tree →
• He tore up the note and threw it away. tree →
• They tore down the old factory. tree →
• The footballer tore a muscle. tree →
• The wind tore the leaves off the trees. tree →
• He groaned and cried and tore his hair. tree →

note

Irregular: tear (rhymes with «care»), tore, torn. Trap: «tear» meaning a drop from your eye (rhymes with «ear») has no form «tore». Do not confuse with «tour» or «toe».

In the corpora

• Chloe, who had got a sticker that week, felt hot and jealous and tore the certificate in half.
• Ollie in Glasgow tore pages out of his maths exercise book to make paper planes.
• And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.