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tear one's hair

tear one's hair verb: to pull at one's own hair in a frenzy of grief or rage.

Verb

tear one's hair (third-person singular simple present tears one's hair, present participle tearing one's hair, simple past tore one's hair, past participle torn one's hair)

  1. To pull at one's own hair in a frenzy of grief or rage.
    • When he heard that Devaki was pregnant again, for the seventh time, he tore his hair in fury.2005, Shanta Rameshwar Rao, Krishna

Forms of tear one's hair

third-person singular presenttears one's hair
present participletearing one's hair
pasttore one's hair
past participletorn one's hair

Words that rhyme with tear one's hair

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Questions about tear one's hair

What does tear one's hair mean?
Tear one's hair means to pull at one's own hair in a frenzy of grief or rage.
What part of speech is tear one's hair?
Tear one's hair is a verb.
What is the past tense of tear one's hair?
The past tense of tear one's hair is tore one's hair.

Words near tear one's hair in the dictionary

  1. tear jerkers
  2. tear line
  3. tear lines
  4. tear off
  5. tear offs
  6. tear one's hair
  7. tear one's hair out
  8. tear out
  9. tear pit
  10. tear resistance
  11. tear sac

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