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tore

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4 lettersPronunciation /tɔː(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted eortStarts with TEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column

Word origin

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-.

Used in a sentence

  • […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]
  • 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[…]
  • "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper[…]

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