torn

[torn]

Torn things have been pulled apart or ripped. Things can be literally torn, like a torn piece of paper, or figuratively torn like your torn heart when you have to take sides in a family feud.

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p. p. of Tear.

Adjective S.
having edges that are jagged from injury

Adjective S.
disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"


p. p.
of Tear


p. p. of Tear.


Torn

Torn , p. p. of Tear.

p. p. of Tear.

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Usage Examples

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

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