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tear out

UK/tɛə aʊt/US/tɛɹ aʊt/

tear out verb: to remove by tearing.

Verb

tear out (third-person singular simple present tears out, present participle tearing out, simple past tore out, past participle torn out)

  1. To remove by tearing.
    • We tore out the old carpeting to reveal the wood floor underneath.

tear out meaning in Sanskrit

tear out in Sanskrit

to tear out
कृष् kṛṣ, कर्षति kárṣati

Forms of tear out

third-person singular presenttears out
present participletearing out
pasttore out
past participletorn out

Words formed from tear out

Questions about tear out

What does tear out mean?
Tear out means to remove by tearing.
What is tear out in Sanskrit?
Tear out in Sanskrit is कृष् (kṛṣ), कर्षति (kárṣati). See Tear out meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is tear out?
Tear out is a verb.
How do you pronounce tear out?
Tear out is pronounced /tɛə aʊt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of tear out?
The past tense of tear out is tore out.

Words near tear out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tear out (page history and authors); कर्षति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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