hotfoot vs tear

hotfoot and tear both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hotfoot	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
tear	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tear is a hyponym of hotfoot; that is, tear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hotfoot:

Other hyponyms of hotfoot include barge, push forward, thrust ahead, buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot.

hotfoot (noun)	tear (noun)
a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it	a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
	the act of tearing
	an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
	an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

hotfoot (verb)	tear (verb)
move hurridly	separate or cause to separate abruptly
	to separate or be separated by force
	strip of feathers
	move quickly and violently
	fill with tears or shed tears

hotfoot (adverb)	tear (adverb)
without delay; speedily