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tourne

tourne is the obsolete spelling of torn.

Meaning of torn

Adjective

torn (comparative more torn, superlative most torn)

  1. Having undergone tearing; ripped or shredded.
  2. Unable to decide between multiple options.
    • I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.
  3. Having marginal incisions that are deep and irregular.

Questions about tourne

What is tourne the obsolete spelling of?
Tourne is the obsolete spelling of torn.

Words near tourne in the dictionary

  1. tournaments
  2. Tournapull
  3. Tournapulls
  4. tournay
  5. tournays
  6. tourne
  7. tournedo
  8. tournedos
  9. tournedos Rossini
  10. Tournefortian
  11. tourneries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tourne (page history and authors); torn (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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