Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Torn.
- Torn in pieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Torn in pieces; tattered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Torn in pieces; tattered.
Etymologies
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be- + torn
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Examples
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After some jocular remarks on his long silence ” remarks in which he alludes to recollections of Szafarnia and the sincerity of their friendship, and which he concludes with the statement that he is so much in demand on all sides as to betorn to pieces ” Chopin proceeds thus: ”
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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