torn

Verb

Verb Forms: torn

• separate or cause to separate abruptly
• to separate or be separated by force
  • "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"
• move quickly and violently
• strip of feathers
• fill with tears or shed tears
• past participle of tear

Adjective Satellite

• having edges that are jagged from injury
• disrupted by the pull of contrary forces
  • "torn between love and hate"
  • "torn by conflicting loyalties"
  • "torn by religious dissensions"

Adj

• Unable to decide between multiple options.
• Having marginal incisions that are deep and irregular.

Adjective

• Having been ripped or pulled apart; past participle of 'tear'.

Examples

• His strategy was TORN between playing a short word for points or saving tiles for a bingo.
• I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.

Synonyms

buck, bust, charge, deplumate, deplume, displume, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, pluck, pull, rupture, shoot, shoot down, snap, tear

Anagrams of torn