2 a hole in a piece of paper, cloth, or other material, where it has been torn
4 a drop of salty liquid that flows from the eye, as a result of strong emotion, especially unhappiness, or pain:
A diet of cold and moist things (spiritually, tears) should neutralize the tremendous heat or the arid tumor of pride.
Revivalists' speech tore down the hedges around literate men's households, publicizing marital conflict to invading ears.
The performance in question moved me to tears on several occasions and then jolted me out of myself into laughter in an instant.
Planning processes could only follow the same path, torn between ideals and perceptions.
Should the material surface structure not be strong enough to resist the impact forces, the material may be torn or its surface otherwise damaged.
As more force is applied, collagen fibres straighten until they reach a critical or break point, at which time the tissue tears.
A proportion of each leaf was then torn off and the leaves scanned and measured again, from which the actual amount missing was calculated.
In yet another sense, a literary work can become a cryptic embodiment of traumatic losses for a readership torn by inexpressible anxieties.
