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torn

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//tɔːn//
  • United States//toɹn//
  • Australia//toːn//

Having undergone tearing; ripped or shredded.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of tearpast participle of tear

adjective

  1. 1

    Having undergone tearing; ripped or shredded.

  2. 2

    Unable to decide between multiple options.

    I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.

  3. 3

    Having marginal incisions that are deep and irregular.

Forms

comparative
more torn
superlative
most torn
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).