tear one's hair
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- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
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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)
- 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.