tearing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tear

1. colloquialenormous; of great size or impact

   a tearing great giant of a man

2. colloquialvery hasty

   a tearing hurry

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   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, →OCLC

plural tearings

1. uncountableusuallyThe act by which something is torn; a laceration.
2. uncountableusuallycomputer graphicsDistortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

   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

1. uncountablemedicinecontinuous shedding of tears; epiphora