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What (who) is -torn - definition

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Torn (song); Torn (album); Torn (disambiguation); Torn (novel); Torn (film); Torn (2013 film)

-torn      
see tear
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Margaret Torn         
RESEARCHER
Draft:Margaret Torn; Margaret S. Torn
Margaret Torn is an ecologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for her research on carbon cycling, especially with respect to the interactions between soils and the atmosphere.
torn         
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Torn is the past participle of tear
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If you are torn between two or more things, you cannot decide which to choose, and so you feel anxious or troubled.
Robb is torn between becoming a doctor and a career in athletics...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ between pl-n

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Torn
Examples of use of -torn
1. Torn between two worlds They aren‘t the only British Muslims torn between two worlds.
2. Torn by conflicting loyalties, Emanuel is ducking.
3. Oil conglomerates were torn between two possible pipeline routes to Western markets: west through the war–torn Caucasus Mountains to Turkey, or south through war–torn Afghanistan to Pakistan and the Arabian Sea.
4. "These were two parents who were absolutely torn apart by what was happening to their daughter, just torn apart," Hallett said.
5. One had its roof torn off completely by the force of the blast, the inside a tangled mess of torn seats, twisted metal and shattered windows.