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tearingly

tearingly adverb: with a tearing or ripping motion.

Adverb

tearingly (comparative more tearingly, superlative most tearingly)

  1. With a tearing or ripping motion.
    • The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
    • The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376

Forms of tearingly

comparativemore tearingly
superlativemost tearingly

Origin of tearingly

From tearing + -ly.

Questions about tearingly

What does tearingly mean?
Tearingly means with a tearing or ripping motion.
What part of speech is tearingly?
Tearingly is an adverb.

Words near tearingly in the dictionary

  1. tearing strips off someone
  2. tearing to pieces
  3. tearing up
  4. tearing up the dance floor
  5. tearing up the pea patch
  6. tearingly
  7. tearings
  8. tearjerker
  9. tearjerkers
  10. tearjerking
  11. tearjerkingly

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