tear
要点裂く、破って作る、引きはがす
意味
- …を裂く,破る,引き裂く
- 〈穴など〉を破って作る
- (…から)…を引きはがす,もぎ取る,引き離す《+away(down, off, out, up)+名+from(out of, off)+名》
- 《受動態》で…を裂いて(破って)分ける《+名+apart》
- 裂ける,破れる
- 《副詞[句]を伴って》激しく(大急ぎで)動く,突進する
- 涙
例文
He told me that she might well burst into tears.
彼女が泣き出すのも当然だと彼は私に言った。
She turned her head away lest he see her tears.
彼に涙を見せまいと彼女は顔を背けた。
They will tear down the old building in two days.
彼らは２日でその古い建物を壊すでしょう。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.