TORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tore mean? 

• TORE (noun)
  The noun TORE has 1 sense:

1. commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column

  Familiarity information: TORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tore; torus

Hypernyms ("tore" is a kind of...):

molding; moulding (a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing)

 Context examples 

My senses swam, but I still tore at the hand and forced it out from my chin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She tore herself from him suddenly and ran up the steps.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a united effort we tore off the coffin-lid.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tore it open, glanced his eyes over it, and crumpled it into his pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tore a long strip from one of his two blankets and bound the ankle tightly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It must, as you say, have been an overpowering necessity which tore him away in such a fashion, and the same necessity is likely to hold him away.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, suddenly springing to his feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“'Fore God, it is sooth!” cried the other; “I had forgot it. The provost-marshal and his men tore us apart when last we met.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The knife, in fact, had come the nearest in the world to missing me altogether; it held me by a mere pinch of skin, and this the shudder tore away.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)