tore

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA^(key): /tɔː/

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• (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA^(key): /tɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA^(key): /to(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /toə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: tor (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), taw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

• tor

tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
3. (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.

• torely

tore

1. simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
   • 1661, George Whitehead, Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] ‎, London, page 39:

     […] that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c […]

   • 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71:

     Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]

   • 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:

     "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper […]

• The past tense of the other verb tear, meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is teared.

See torus.

tore (plural tores)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of torus
2. (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

tore (uncountable)

1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:

     the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

• tore up

• rote

tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)

1. fine, splendid

Inherited from Latin torus.

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ/

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• Homophones: tord, tords, tores, tors, tort, torts (general), taure, taures (one pronunciation)

tore m (plural tores)

1. (geometry) torus

• torique

• “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• ôter, rote, roté

tore

1. inflection of torar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tore

1. vocative singular of torus

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tore

1. mouth

• IPA^(key): /²toː.rə/
• Homophone: tåre

tore (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)

1. Alternative form of tora (“to dare”)

Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”).

• IPA^(key): /²tuːrə/

tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)

1. a thunder

• tora (non-standard since 2012)

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)

1. (impersonal, metereology) to thunder
2. (intransitive, figurative) to rage

   Synonyms: buldre, skjenne, smelle

• tora (a-infinitive)
• torna, torne (with n-infix and either infinitive)

• lyn n (“lightning”)
• (noun): torden (Bokmål)
• (verb): tordne (Bokmål)

From Old Norse tóra (“to live life meazelly”).

• torast (a-infinitive)

• IPA^(key): /²tuːrə/

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)

1. (intransitive, about fire) to burn weakly

• “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• erot, oret, orte, oter, rote, ròte, tore, Tore, troe

tore

1. inflection of torar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish torre. Displaced moog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾe/, [ˈto.ɾɛ]
• Hyphenation: to‧re

tore (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜒ)

1. tower

   Synonyms: banayaban, (obsolete) moog

2. (chess) rook

• “tore”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.ɾe]

tore

1. (stative) to be dried

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh