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'Tare' (noun) has several meanings, one of which refers to a type of field plant.

Nouns do not have past tenses. (e.g. What is the past tense of 'tree'?)

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'to tare' (verb) means to take account of the weight of the packaging etc when giving the weight of things. The past tense is 'tared'. e.g.

  1. "It's OK, I've tared the weight and I'm not charging you for the weight of the crate."
  2. Scales should always be carefully tared (set to zero) before use. NB. This usage is rare. Zeroed, zeroized (UK zeroised) is more usual.

A similar sounding word is to 'tear', as in 'to tear a piece of paper.'

The past simple of tear is tore:

"He tore his trousers when he tried to climb over that barbwire fence."

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