Contact and joining
Synonyms for tear
The synonym for tear recorded in this bank is snap, in the sense "separate or cause to separate abruptly". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for tear
- snapverb, in the sense "separate or cause to separate abruptly"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tear carries one sense so far.
separate or cause to separate abruptly
The strap began to tear under the heavy load.
The true synonym
snap
Same sentence, swapped: The strap began to snap under the heavy load.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- buck
- pull
- drill
Where tear turns up in the game
tear is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where tear is the trap
- pullverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract", so tear is there to be ruled out.
Play tear
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tear reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
tear is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.