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tore

Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)/

The English word “tore” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

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

noun

  1. torus
  2. The solid enclosed by a torus
  3. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

Etymology

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-.

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