tore

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

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• (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA^(key): /toɹ/
• (Scotland) enPR: tōr, IPA^(key): /toːɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA^(key): /to(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /toə/, /toː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: tor (horse–hoarse merger); taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (pour–poor 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 and J 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 Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , →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 , 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to Maori turou (“come; welcome”) and Madurese atore (“please”).

• Hyphenation: to‧re

tore

1. welcome

tore

1. vocative singular of torus

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tore (“striked, streaked” – compare to Rarotongan tore, Tahitian tore),^[1][2]

tore (passive torea)

1. to cut, to split
2. (of light) to pass through a narrow aperture

tore

1. strip, shred (of cloth etc)

   Synonym: hae

2. stripe

   Synonym: ropi

3. narrow light beam passing through a slit

tore

1. of keen or sharp eyesight

From Proto-Polynesian *tole (compare with Samoan toletole and Tongan tole)^[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teli^[2][3]

tore

1. vagina, vulva

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 513
• “tore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

tore

1. Alternative form of tour

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

tore

1. mouth

From Old Norse þora.

• IPA^(key): /toːˈrə/

tore (present tense tør, past tense torde or turte, past participle tort or turt)

1. to dare

   Synonym: våge

2. (literary) to allow, to need

   Synonyms: få, behøve, trenge

3. (literary) to should, to could

   Synonyms: kunne, burde

• tørre.

From Old Norse *þórr. See Norwegian Bokmål torden

• IPA^(key): /toːˈrə/

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

1. (dialectal) a thunder (noun)

   Synonym: torden

tore (present tense torer, simple past toret, past participle toret)

1. (dialectal, metereology) to thunder (verb)

   Synonym: tordne

From Norwegian Bokmål tor. From Old Norse tóra. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk tore.

• IPA^(key): /toːˈrə/

tore

1. (dialectal) to burn slightly

   Synonym: brenne svakt

• “tore” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “tore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

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

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Torebrak

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾe/
• Rhymes: -oɾe
• Syllabification: to‧re

tore (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜒ)

1. tower

   Synonyms: banayaban, (obsolete) moog

2. (chess) rook

Chess pieces in Tagalog · mga piyesa sa ahedres (layout · text)
hari	reyna	tore	obispo/alpil	kabayo	peon

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

• reto

• IPA^(key):

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