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tore out

tore out is the simple past of tear out.

Meaning of tear out

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.

Questions about tore out

What is tore out the simple past of?
Tore out is the simple past of tear out.

Words near tore out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tore out (page history and authors); tear out (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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