tore

Meanings

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

1. simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
2. past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)

1. Alternative form of torus.
2. The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

1. A village in Highland, Scotland.

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-.