Noun: tare
Sample Sentences
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But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. [Matthew 13:25 (KJV)]
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I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin. [1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:]
Nouns inflected like tare
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru. See: Middle English Nouns '
tare', Old English Nouns '
*taru'.
Verbs referencing "tare"
Latin Nouns
dravoca.