Sail and Tear

Sail

Sail verb - To travel on water in a vessel.

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Tear and sail are semantically related in move topic. In some cases you can use "Tear" instead a verb "Sail", when it comes to topics like scorch. informal substitute

Nearby Words: sailed, sailing, sailor, sailer

Tear

Tear verb - To cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it.

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Sail and tear are semantically related in move topic. Sometimes you can use "Sail" instead a verb "Tear".

Nearby Words: tearful, tearing, teary, teardrop, tearless

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How words are described

special	special sail	special tear
normal	normal sail	normal tear
small	small sail	small tear
massive	massive sail	massive tear
Other adjectives: large, big, giant.

Common collocations

parts	sail parts	tear parts
way	sail way	tear way
earth	sail earth	tear earth
world	sail world	tear world
Other words: ship.

Both words in one sentence

He had hired his former first mate, Timmy LeBeau, and a large number of porte mages to tear open a hole large enough for his ship to sail through.

Source: Blind Jump
Luke and his friends tear through Jabba's guards on the sail barge.

Source: Film / Return of the Jedi
In addition, hyperspace is populated by gravity waves that will tear a ship apart; until someone figured out how to sail along the grav waves and the major ones were well-plotted, hyper travel was extremely dangerous.

Source: Corralled Cosmos

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