tear one's hair

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Verb

tear one's hair (third-person singular simple present tears one's hair, present participle tearing one's hair, simple past tore one's hair, past participle torn one's hair)

1. To pull at one's own hair in a frenzy of grief or rage.
   • 2005, Shanta Rameshwar Rao, Krishna:

     When he heard that Devaki was pregnant again, for the seventh time, he tore his hair in fury.

Related terms

• tear one's hair out