tore

English

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England)

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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)

Etymology 1

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-.

Alternative forms

• tor

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• torely

Etymology 2

Verb

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 […]

Usage notes

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

Etymology 3

See torus.

Noun

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.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

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 H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:

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

See also

• tore up

Anagrams

• rote

Estonian

Adjective

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

1. fine, splendid

Declension

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ/

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

Noun

tore m (plural tores)

1. (geometry) torus

Derived terms

• torique

Further reading

• “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• ôter, rote, roté

Galician

Verb

tore

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

Latin

Noun

tore

1. vocative singular of torus

Ngarrindjeri

Etymology

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

Noun

tore

1. mouth

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Etymology 2

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Torebrak

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tuːrə/

Noun

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

1. a thunder

Alternative forms

• tora (non-standard since 2012)

Derived terms

Verb

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

Alternative forms

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

See also

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

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

• (a-infinitive): torast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tuːrə/

Verb

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

References

• “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

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

Portuguese

Verb

tore

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torre. Displaced moog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾe/,
• Hyphenation: to‧re

Noun

tore (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜒ)

1. tower

   Synonyms: banayaban, (obsolete) moog

2. (chess) rook

Coordinate terms

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

Further reading

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

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tore

1. (stative) to be dried

Conjugation

References

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