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Meanings of to tear apart in English
Act of breaking apart a material by force, without the aid of a cutting tool.
Synonyms
Examples for "torn"
Examples for "torn"
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Are we willing to accept war torn Ferguson as the new normal?
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The water had torn almost all the way to the east side.
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It was torn down in 1984 by the Communist East German government.
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There were dreadful lacerations; the skin was torn in strips and shreds.
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I've been feeling somewhat torn about our meeting in your office today.
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And it's so powerful, it has no problem tearing right through them.
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You see on the news where they've been tearing apart Ghanet's house?
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You cannot uproot all of my work without tearing down every building.
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The effort of tearing open the poly wrapper set my heart pounding.
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I was thrilled when I heard her inside tearing the house apart.
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Attempts to tear open carefully wrapped bundles had succeeded in some cases.
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An invisible world seemed to tear it to pieces in the air.
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Now large numbers are ready to tear away at it... View Article
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And it has no need to tear the flesh from the bones.
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She had told me before he wanted to tear up the family.
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I knew they'd tear apart every word I said in a trial.
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For the dragon-oneof the Five Vektia dragons-couldtear apart creation itself.
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He directed us to tear apart the car looking for anything wet.
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To tear apart this stupid competition and send everyone into a tizzy.
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They're used in the demolition business to tear apart sections of scrapped books.
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He said the world would be torn apart by the Dragon's coming.
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I knew without looking that a sheep had just been torn apart.
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How can America sleep at night when families are being torn apart?
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Then, the far wall was torn apart as if from an explosion.
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Between the two of us we'd torn apart about fifteen hundred reports.
Usage of to tear apart in English
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He directed us to tear apart the car looking for anything wet.
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They're used in the demolition business to tear apart sections of scrapped books.
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He took a slice of bread to tear apart and use as bait.
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The intense heat of re-entry cause this gash to tear apart the shuttle.
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She'd never seen one she hadn't wanted to tear apart.
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They were perfect readers -tearing apart that which was important to tear apart.
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Never had he so desired to crush, to tear apart, utterly to destroy something.
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I'd watched them use those same tools to tear apart the caffè's walls and ceiling.
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Mildred didn't mention her, and anyway, why would Sylvie want to tear apart the bookshop?
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The conflict threatens to tear apart a nation that only became independent from Sudan in 2011.
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This last I had to tear apart and carry away in pieces, it was so heavy.
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I ran toward them and desperately tried to tear apart their bindings with my small hands.
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South Sudan analyst James Copnall investigates the historic enmities threatening to tear apart the world's newest country.
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It is the closest thing we have to a universal solvent, able to tear apart other compounds.
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He'd been furious that I'd hired Zack to tear apart a kitchen Aidan insisted was perfectly acceptable.
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The ship was designed to tear apart small planets and asteroids, mining them of their precious minerals.