Usually means: Liquid produced by crying eyes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tear, tear, tear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tear, tear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tear, tear: Wordnik
  7. tear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tear: Wiktionary
  9. tear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tear: Dictionary.com
  13. tear (n.), tear (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tear (Wheel of Time), Tear (disambiguation), Tear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tear: Rhymezone
  19. Tear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tear, Tear: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tear: Free Dictionary
  23. tear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tear: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tear: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tear: Medical dictionary
  4. Tear: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. TEAR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. tear: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear, tear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tear: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. tear: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tearable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
verb:  (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
verb:  (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
verb:  (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
verb:  (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
verb:  (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
verb:  (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
noun:  A hole or break caused by tearing.
noun:  (slang) A rampage.
noun:  A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
noun:  Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
noun:  (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
noun:  That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce tears.

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