Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tears or rends anything.
- noun A person or thing that blusters or raves; a violent person; something big, raging, violent, or the like.
- noun See
teerer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
tears orrends anything; also, one whorages orraves withviolence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But askshattra is derived fromkshad, “to eat, to rend, to tear to pieces,” the title of this goddess would mean the “tearer to pieces, or the devourer.”
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Much better now before it mutates into a ball tearer.
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He sought all occasions for learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem.
Les Miserables 2008
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This boastful handiwork of ours, which fails in its terrors for the professional pauper, the sturdy breaker of windows and the rampant tearer of clothes, strikes with a cruel and a wicked stab at the stricken sufferer, and is a horror to the deserving and unfortunate.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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Alas! cried the old dissembler, he told me, the butcher, the tyrant, the tearer of devils told me that he had made a match to scratch with you this day, and to try his claws he did but just touch me with his little finger here betwixt the legs, and has spoiled me for ever.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Alas! cried the old dissembler, he told me, the butcher, the tyrant, the tearer of devils told me that he had made a match to scratch with you this day, and to try his claws he did but just touch me with his little finger here betwixt the legs, and has spoiled me for ever.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And then a captain -- good for me, I'll be a regular tearer.
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Our name, "Asparagus," is derived from a Greek word signifying "the tearer," in allusion to the spikes of some species; or perhaps from the Persian "Spurgas,"
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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He is the destroyer of Daksha's sacrifice and the tearer of Bhaga's eyes.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The divine Mahadeva, the bearer of the Sula, the tearer of Bhaga's eyes, taking up the sword whose splendour resembled that of the all-destructive Yuga fire, and wielding a large shield with three high bosses which looked like a mass of dark clouds adorned with flashes of lightning, began to perform diverse kinds of evolutions.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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