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What is the adjective for tearing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs tear and torend which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tore
  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  2. (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  3. (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
teary
  1. Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
  2. Of eyes, filled with tears.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Rubbing her teary eyes, she sobbed for several seconds.”
      “After telling a teary story of her father's dying years, she declared that she had herbal pills that prevented Alzheimer's.”
      “Physical examination showed an alert newborn, evincing mucoid nasal discharge, and teary eyes.”
tearful
  1. accompanied by tears.
  2. sorrowful.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He got a little tearful as the journalist was leaving.”
      “The film runs the gamut of emotions from tearful sickbed scenes to ruthless black comedy.”
      “Staff, pupils and parents are due to bid a tearful farewell to their Bolton primary school tomorrow.”
tearlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tear (drop of liquid from the eye).
  2. Synonyms:
tearproof
  1. resistant to being torn
tearsome
  1. Marked by tears or weeping
  2. Examples:
    1. “And then he threw open the bedroom door and she commenced to laugh, but even then, it was a weepy, gasping, tearsome kind of laughter that was purely an overflowing of joy.”
tearstreaked
tearstained
  1. Stained with tears.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She lifted her head and revealed her bloodshot eyes and her tearstained cheeks.”
      “One of his hands traced up along the side of my tearstained cheek and through my hair.”
      “Now Criss reprised the song as a karaoke solo, a tearstained confession about the death of first love — of their relationship, and, in a sense, of the show itself.”
tearable
  1. Able to be torn.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Pro-Gaff is waterproof, abrasion resistant, and has a smooth, controlled unwind, and is hand tearable.”
      “Thus, the tearable tape system renders the packaging material easy to open, and provides a convenient handle following opening.”
      “Tena Pants Plus are put on just like normal underwear, but have a tearable side seam to make them easy to remove.”
tearless
  1. Without tears.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He feels a sleepless night ahead, filled with tearless agony, wails of frustration again emptying.”
      “Then, I had to bid a tearless farewell to the Leisure Park, the County Mall, and Bar Med, as I left Crawley for the last time.”
      “Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.”
tearing
torent
  1. (obsolete) Torn.
teared
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