1. tear - Noun
2. tear - Verb
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
To move violently; to agitate.
To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Antonio Porchia
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder
A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile. Persian Proverb
A tear in the eye is a wound in the heart. Gypsy Proverb
The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it. Cambodian Proverb