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tawr

  • n  commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
  • v  separate or cause to separate abruptly
  • v  to separate or be separated by force
  • v  move quickly and violently
    The car tore down the street
  • v  strip of feathers
  • v  fill with tears or shed tears

  • Vultures tore into the rapidly putrefying corpses (among them, the bodies of many women children).
  • The string of ferocious storms left 13 dead across Tennessee, including 10 who died when a tornado tore through Madison County and downtown Jackson.
  • One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads.
News & Articles

  • Bomb on Pakistani women's university bus kills 11
    QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb tore through a bus of female university students in southwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing 11, officials said. As family and friends gathered at the hospital another blast went off, followed by a flurry of bullets that sent bystanders running for cover.
    June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Bomb on Pakistani women's university bus kills 11- Pakistan frees hospital hostages from gunmen
    QUETTA, Pakistan – A bomb tore through a bus of female university students in southwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing 11, officials said. As family and friends gathered at the hospital another blast went off, followed by a flurry of bullets that sent bystanders running for cover.
    June 15, 2013 - Fox News
  • A successful debut for the Maple City Grand Prix
    La PORTE — They tore across the surface of Stone Lake on Saturday, ripping through the water at speeds of 120 mph and hitting sharp corners with barely a change of pace.
    June 15, 2013 - The Michigan City News-Dispatch
Quotes

  • Paul Pierce in Toronto Star
    When I came down I thought I felt a pop, I thought I tore it,Pierce said.
  • Jonathan Papelbon in Forbes
    He plays with baseballs like they are his toys,Papelbon told the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. "He jumped up one day on the counter and snatched it. He likes rawhide. He tore that thing to pieces. Nobody knows that. I'll keep what's left...
  • Gianluigi Buffon in Telegraph.co.uk
    I thought I tore something apart, but it turned out I just aggravated my sciatic nerve,Buffon said.

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