tear sb apart
— Phrasal Verb with tear /teər/ verb (past tense tore, past participle torn)Definition
› to make someone very unhappy: Seeing the children suffer really tears me apart.
(Definition of tear sb apart from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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