# tore

Pronunciation: US say "TOR" /tɔɹ/; UK say "TAW" /tɔː(ɹ)/

## Verb

1. Past tense of tear. — simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
   - Simple: Past tense of tear. Use it for the past.
   - _He tore the letter into tiny pieces before anyone could read it._
   - _The sports car tore down the highway at terrifying speed._
2. Past participle of tear. Nonstandard: standard English uses torn. *(nonstandard)* — past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
   - Simple: Past participle of tear. A nonstandard form some people use in place of torn.
   - _She had tore the wrapping off before checking whose gift it was._
   - _The flag was tore by the strong wind during the night._

## Noun

3. The surface formed when a circle revolves around a straight line lying in the same plane as the circle.
   - Simple: A donut-shaped surface made by spinning a circle around a line beside it.
   - _The professor described the tore as a circle swept around an external axis._
   - _Calculating the area of a tore requires knowing both its radii._
4. The solid body enclosed by a torus surface; also called an anchor ring.
   - Simple: The full donut shape, solid all the way through, not just the outer surface.
   - _The engineer machined a steel tore to serve as the coupling ring._
   - _Filling the tore with foam changed the way it floated._
5. Alternative form of torus. — Alternative form of torus.
   - Simple: Alternative form of torus. Names the round molding at the base of a column.
6. Dead grass that remains on hay meadows through the winter and into spring.
   - Simple: Old dead grass left on fields used for hay during winter and early spring.
   - _The farmer burned off the old tore before the new grass came up._
   - _Thick tore lay matted across the meadow after the snow melted._

## Adjective

7. Strong and sturdy; great or massive in size or force. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Strong and sturdy, or very big and powerful.
   - _A tore farmhand could lift two sacks of grain at once._
   - _They raised a tore barn that withstood every winter gale._
8. Hard or difficult; wearisome and tedious. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Hard to do, or tiring and boring.
9. Full; rich or plentiful. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Full of something, or rich and plentiful.
   - _A tore harvest filled every barn in the parish that autumn._
   - _The dairy produced tore cream, golden and heavy._

## Origin

**Meanings 7–9** — From Middle English tor or tore, from the Old Norse prefix tor- ("hard, difficult, wrong, bad"), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *dus- ("bad, ill, difficult"). It is related to Old High German zur- ("mis-"), Gothic tuz-, and Ancient Greek dus-.
**Meaning 6** — Probably from the root of tear; compare the Welsh word for a break or cut.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tore (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).