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TORN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having edges that are jagged from injury
Synonyms:
lacerate; lacerated; mangled; torn
Classified under:
Similar:
injured (harmed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disrupted by the pull of contrary forces
Example:
torn by religious dissensions
Classified under:
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb tear
Context examples:
Triton's gravity would have torn up Neptune's original satellite system.
(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)
The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I could have torn my hair and beaten my head in my despair.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The flesh on the shoulder is torn as well as cut.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To-night I tried again and succeeded, but I find that the pages which deal with that month have been torn from the book.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He nodded his head, regarding her thoughtfully as she gathered the torn pieces of manuscript and tucked them into the pocket of her jacket—ocular evidence of the success of her mission.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He saw a squat moose-hide sack, mate to his own, which had been torn by sharp teeth.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“Jagged or torn,” was the message, and the place of origin, Baden.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Anderson's ball—for it was Job that shot him first—had broken his shoulder-blade and touched the lung, not badly; the second had only torn and displaced some muscles in the calf.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
