Tore
/tɔːr/noun
Simple past tense of tear, meaning to pull apart or rip violently.
Did you know?English tear/tore comes from a very old Germanic verb meaning “to tear apart,” and its sound has survived for centuries almost unchanged while the meaning stayed brutally physical.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*der-
“to split, tear apart”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*teraną
“to tear, rend”
Old English
OE
teran
“to tear, lacerate”
Middle English
ME
teren
“to tear apart”
Modern English
English
tore
“simple past tense of tear”