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present participle and gerund of tear examples
(colloquial) enormous; of great size or impact examples
(colloquial) very hasty quotations examples
The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
usually uncountable, plural tearings
The act by which something is torn; a laceration. examples
(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames. quotations examples
Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.
2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303
uncountable
(medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora examples