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RELATED WORDS : apart break apart come apart drift apart fall apart keep apart know apart pick apart poles apart set apart stand apart take apart taking apart tear tear away tear down tear duct tear from tear gas tear gas grenade tear gland tear into tear jerking tear loose tear off tear out tear sac tear sheet tear to pieces tear up tease apart tell apart wear and tear worlds apart

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Verb tear apart has 1 sense

• tear apart(v = verb.communication) pan, trash - express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance"
is one way to belittle, disparage, pick at
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue tear apart the movie

THESAURUS

tear apart

atomize, break to pieces, carp, catch at straws, cavil, cleave, cut up, defoliate, demolish, denude, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, draw and quarter, fault-find, find fault, flay, fragment, lacerate, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, mutilate, nitpick, peel, pettifog, pick holes, pick to pieces, pull apart, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, quibble, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, shred, skin, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take exception, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack up, wreck

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