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Teared vs Yeared - What's the difference?

teared | yeared |

As a verb teared

is past tense of tear (produce liquid from the eyes).

As an adjective yeared is

of a specified number of years.

teared

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tear) (produce liquid from the eyes).

    • See also

    * tore, torn

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    yeared

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a specified number of years.
  • (poetic) That has lasted many years; old.
  • *1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 701:
  • *:Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.