tore
/tɔɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
noun
Alternative form of torus.
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]"
- "Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby[…]"
- ""Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper[…]"
- "the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do"
Etymology
From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɔɹ/
- British English: /tɔː(ɹ)/