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tore a cat

tore a cat is the simple past of tear a cat.

Meaning of tear a cat

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage.
    • Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, scene 2

Questions about tore a cat

What is tore a cat the simple past of?
Tore a cat is the simple past of tear a cat.

Words near tore a cat in the dictionary

  1. tordions
  2. Tordoff
  3. Tordoia
  4. Tordères
  5. tore
  6. tore a cat
  7. tore along
  8. tore apart
  9. tore ass
  10. tore at
  11. tore away

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