n. - a hard durable timber.

- large indian or se asian deciduous tree yielding this. [portuguese from malayalam]

n. (pl. Same) small freshwater duck. [origin unknown]

spirit n. Willingness to act for the communal good.

- —n. - set of players forming one side in a game.

- two or more people working together.

- set of draught animals. —v. - (usu. Foll. By up) join in a team or in common action (teamed up with them).

- (foll. By with) match or coordinate (clothes). [old english]

—v. (past tore; past part. Torn) 1 (often foll. By up) pull apart or to pieces with some force (tore up the letter).

- a make a hole or rent in this way; undergo this (have torn my coat; curtain tore). B make (a hole or rent).

- (foll. By away, off, at, etc.) Pull violently (tore off the cover; tore down the notice).

- violently disrupt or divide (torn by guilt).

- colloq. Go hurriedly (tore across the road). —n. - hole etc. Caused by tearing.

- torn part of cloth etc. be torn between have difficulty in choosing between. Tear apart 1 search (a place) exhaustively.

- criticize forcefully.

- destroy; divide utterly; distress greatly. Tear one's hair out colloq. Behave with extreme desperation. Tear into colloq. - severely reprimand.

- start (an activity) vigorously. Tear oneself away leave reluctantly. Tear to shreds colloq. Refute or criticize thoroughly. That's torn it colloq. That has spoiled things etc. [old english]

- n. - drop of clear salty liquid secreted by glands from the eye, and shed esp. In grief.

- tearlike thing; drop. in tears crying. [old english]

n. - mammary nipple, esp. Of an animal.

- rubber nipple for sucking from a bottle. [french from germanic]

n. (also tec) colloq. Technical college. [abbreviation]

v. - be abundant.

- (foll. By with) be full of or swarming with (teeming with ideas). [old english, = give birth to]

- v. (often foll. By down) (of water etc.) Flow copiously; pour (teeming with rain). [old norse]

attrib. Adj. = *teenage. [abbreviation]

- suffix forming numerals from 13 to 19. [old english]

n. An african cereal. [amharic]

abbr. Teaching of english as a foreign language.