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tore one's hair

tore one's hair is the simple past of tear one's hair.

Meaning of tear one's hair

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

Questions about tore one's hair

What is tore one's hair the simple past of?
Tore one's hair is the simple past of tear one's hair.

Words near tore one's hair in the dictionary

  1. tore away
  2. tore down
  3. tore into
  4. tore it up
  5. tore off
  6. tore one's hair
  7. tore one's hair out
  8. tore out
  9. tore someone a new asshole
  10. tore someone a new one
  11. tore someone off a strip

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