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# tore

«tore» in Mova's judaism 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#m1)

2) Tore also means moved very fast in a wild way: «he tore down the street». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#m2)

3) Tore up means ripped into pieces; tore down means destroyed a building or pulled something down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#m3)

### 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

- There- tore, the author of the Sefer Yetzirah may have meant by two (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x1)
- And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them. (Prophets 2KI.2.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x2)
- I tore my jeans on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x3)
- She tore open her birthday present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x4)
- The dog tore across the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x5)
- He tore up the note and threw it away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x6)
- They tore down the old factory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x7)
- The footballer tore a muscle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x8)
- The wind tore the leaves off the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x9)
- He groaned and cried and tore his hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/#x10)

### 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

- [And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.47/)
- [Chloe, who had got a sticker that week, felt hot and jealous and tore the certificate in half.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone/6/)
- [Ollie in Glasgow tore pages out of his maths exercise book to make paper planes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.