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TEAR

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

TEAR is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TEARS-s 2 TEARING-ing 5 TORE 1 TORN 1 TEARED-ed 3

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

TEARFUL 5 TEARFULLY 11 TEARFULNESS 11 TEARFULNESSES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
    • He tore his coat on the nail.
  2. transitiveTo injure as if by pulling apart.
    • He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
  3. transitiveTo destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
    • He was torn by conflicting emotions.
  4. transitiveTo make (an opening) with force or energy.
    • A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
    • His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
    • The artillery tore a gap in the line.
  5. oftentransitiveTo remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
    • Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
  6. transitiveTo demolish.
    • The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
  7. intransitiveTo become torn, especially accidentally.
    • My dress has torn.
  8. intransitiveTo move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
    • He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
    • The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.
    • He tore into the backlog of complaints.
  9. intransitiveTo smash or enter something with great force.
    • The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry.
  10. intransitiveTo be interrupted midway through.
    • torn write
  11. intransitiveTo produce tears.
    • Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
noun
  1. A hole or break caused by tearing.
    • A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
  2. slangA rampage.
    • to go on a tear
  3. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
    • Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.
    • Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.
  4. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  5. A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  6. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.