Definitions for tear apart

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pan, tear apart, trash(verb)

    express a totally negative opinion of

    "The critics panned the performance"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. tear apart(verb)ɛər

    to cause a friendship, relationship, etc. to be destroyed

    a dispute that had torn the family apart

  2. tear apartɛər

    to destroy sth

    floodwaters that tore apart a whole town

Wiktionary

  1. tear apart(Verb)

    to tear or rip something to cause it to come apart

  2. tear apart(Verb)

    to destroy

  3. tear apart(Verb)

    to cause to separate

  4. tear apart(Verb)

    to severely defeat


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