tear apart
Verb
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Verb
tear apart
- (transitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see tear, apart
- She tore her ex-boyfriend’s clothes apart in fury.
- (transitive) to destroy
- 2003 The Room
- Johnny: You are lying! I never hit you! You are tearing me apart, Lisa!
- The bomb tore apart most of the town hall.
- 2003 The Room
- (transitive) to cause to separate
- 1979, Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
- Love, love will tear us apart again
- 1979, Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
- (transitive, figuratively) to severely defeat
- Synonyms: take apart
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