tear sth apart

— Phrasal Verb with tear

/teər/ verb (past tense tore, past participle torn)

Definition

FIGHT/ARGUE › to make a group of people argue or fight with each other: The country was torn apart by 12 years of civil war.

DESTROY › to destroy something: The building was torn apart by the bomb blast.

(Definition of tear sth apart from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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