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tore¹

  • /tɔː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /tɔɹ/ US
  • /toːɹ/ Scotland
  • /to(ː)ɹ/
  • /toə/
  • /toː/

Sounds like tor (horse–hoarse merger), taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

adjective more tore · most tore · tor

  1. dialectal, obsolete Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  2. dialectal, obsolete Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  3. dialectal, obsolete Full; rich.

tore²

  • /tɔː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /tɔɹ/ US
  • /toːɹ/ Scotland
  • /to(ː)ɹ/
  • /toə/
  • /toː/

Sounds like tor (horse–hoarse merger), taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

verb

  1. past simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
  2. colloquial, nonstandard, participle, past past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”) […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]

tore³

  • /tɔː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /tɔɹ/ US
  • /toːɹ/ Scotland
  • /to(ː)ɹ/
  • /toə/
  • /toː/

Sounds like tor (horse–hoarse merger), taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

See torus.

noun tores

  1. alternative Alternative form of torus
  2. torus
  3. The solid enclosed by a torus

    Similar: anchor ring

tore⁴

  • /tɔː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /tɔɹ/ US
  • /toːɹ/ Scotland
  • /to(ː)ɹ/
  • /toə/
  • /toː/

Sounds like tor (horse–hoarse merger), taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

Tore⁵

proper noun

  1. A village in Highland, Scotland.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: torus, tired, damaged, destroyed, devastated, wrecked, hurried, shattered, ruptured, ripped, shredded, hit, split, flattened, cracked, pierced

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Chicago

"tore." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tore.

BibTeX
@misc{tore_2026,
  title = {tore},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tore},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}