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Definition of Tear off
1. Verb. Rip off violently and forcefully. "The passing bus tore off her side mirror"
Definition of Tear off
1. Verb. (transitive) To rip away from; to pull a piece from forcibly. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To leave or depart rapidly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tear Off
Literary usage of Tear off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"We will tear off all possible masks. Let not the indulgents imagine that it is
for them that we have fought, that it is for them we have here held glorious ..."
2. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... he would run after Father Raphael, and bring him back, or tear off his beard
hair by hair; that if he brought it, without leaving any behind, . ..."
3. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1842)
"To tear off the nails 2. To pull out the roots of trees.—vr. To plunge into rice
and disorder. ... tear off ..."
4. Battles for the Union: Comprising Descriptions of Many of the Most by Willard W. Glazier (1875)
""tear off Your Chevrons."—Successful Stand.—Charge of the Harris Light Cavalry.
ON the twenty-ninth of August, 1862, the storm of battle again broke over ..."
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