Tear Up

Definition: Tear Up

Tear Up

Verb

1. Tear into shreds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Tear Up

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Crosswords: Tear Up

They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Or else I'll tear up this town (Footloose; performing artist: Kenny Loggins)

There's a tear up the front. (BIKE; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

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Theater & Movies

• Speed Gliding, Tear up the Skies hang gliding (reference)

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Expression using "tear up": To tear up. Additional references.

Albanian

shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear, tear off, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), çjerr (clapperclaw, claw, lacerate, scratch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, unrip, unseam). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкъсвам (bait, dismember, lacerate, pick, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear off, tear open), накъсвам, подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away), изскубвам (pluck off, pluck up, pull). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�毀 . (various references)

Czech

roztrhat (break up, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, rip up, savage, sunder, tear, tear apart, tear asunder). (various references)

Danish

i anlaeg,hvor staldgoedningen goeres flydende,findeles goedningen,og samtidig tilsaettes vand,som goer det muligt at sprede goedningen ved hjaelp af specielle vandingsanlaeg (manure liquifying plants tear up the dung and mix it with water, so as to enable spreading by means of special sprayers). (various references)

Dutch

verdunningsinstallaties slaan de stalmest kapot en mengen deze met water,zodat de mest door middel van speciale sproei-installaties kan worden verspreid (manure liquifying plants tear up the dung and mix it with water, so as to enable spreading by means of special sprayers). (various references)

Finnish

repiä (rend, rip, tear, tear off, tear out, tear to pieces). (various references)

French

mettre en morceaux, déchirer (tear). (various references)

German

zerreißen (break, carve up, disrupt, ladder, rend, rip, rip to shreds, tear, tear apart, tear in two, tear limb from limb, tear to pieces, to disrupt, to tear, to tear up), zerfetzen (frazzle, lacerate, rip to shreds, rip up, shred, slash, tatter, tear to pieces, to frazzle, to slash), aufreißen (break up, burst, fling open, gash, lacerate, open up, open wide, outline, rend, rip, rip open, rip up, split, take up, tear, tear open). (various references)

Greek 

κομματιάζω (disjoint, hack, shred, smash), σκίζω (rip, tear), σχίζω (cleave, fist, rend, shred, skive, slash, slit, sliver, slot, splinter, split, tear, tore, torn), ξεριζώνω (dig up, eradicate, extirpate, uproot, weed out). (various references)

Hungarian

darabokra tép (pull to pieces, tear to pieces, to pull in pieces, to pull to pieces, to shred). (various references)

Italian

annullare (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, nullify, override, overrule, quash, remit, rescind, scrub, set aside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掘�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up), 掘り�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up), 引裂く (to split, to tear off, to tear up), 引き裂く (to split, to tear off, to tear up), � �り�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひきさく (to split, to tear off, to tear up), ほりかえす (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up). (various references)

Manx

raipey ayns peeshyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

eartay upay

Portuguese

nas instalações de diluição o estrume é triturado com a adição de água,de forma a que possa ser distribuído por bicos de aspersão especiais (manure liquifying plants tear up the dung and mix it with water, so as to enable spreading by means of special sprayers). (various references)

Russian 

перервать (break). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razderati (lacerate, rend), pocepati (rip up, tear). (various references)

Spanish

violar (abuse, breach, break, leak, rape, ravish, tear, throw over, violate), roturar (break, leak, plough up, tear, throw over), quebrantar (break, disrupt, leak, shake, shatter, tear, throw over, unbuild, undermine), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, throw over, walk away), llegar a toda pastilla, infringir (break, contravene, infringe, tear, throw over, transgress, trespass), incumplir (break, flout, leak, tear, throw over), deshacer (break, break up, leak, smash, tear, throw over, undo, unpack), desarraigar (deracinate, dig up, disroot, grub up, stub up, stubbed, stubbing, uproot), batir (beat, beat up, break, churn, drive, flap, hammer, leak, mill, pound, scour, tear, throw over, tread, tread down, whip up, whir, whirr, whisk up), arrancar (abstract, blow away, draw, draw out, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull away, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring), acabar con (abate, be through with, blast, break, break down, break up, dash, destroy, do away with, finish, kill, nail, polish off, put down, remove, settle, sink, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

rusa uppför. (various references)

Turkish

yukarı fırlamak, yırtıp atmak, paramparça etmek (make mincemeat of, smash to smithereens, tear to pieces, tear to tatters), kökünden sökmek (disroot, eradicate, extirpate, root away, root out, root up, stub, stub up, uproot), harap etmek (destroy, devastate, dilapidate, make havoc of, play havoc with, ravage, ruin, shatter, waste, work havoc). (various references)

Ukrainian

розривати (break, break away, denounce, develop, disrupt, divorce, outbreak, rupture), видирати (extort, rip out), підривати (blast, cave, detonate, disrupt, erode, explode, fulminate, sap, undermine). (various references)

concerperet, convulsa, convulsam. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: uprate, uptear.

-1 letter: apter, erupt, pareu, pater, peart, prate, pruta, taper, taupe, urate.

-2 letters: aper, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, pert, prat, prau, pure, rape, rapt, rate, reap, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, trap, true, urea.

-3 letters: ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, eta, par, pat, pea, per, pet, pur, put, rap, rat.

+1 letter: capture, parquet, pasture, rapture, tempura, updater, uprated, uprates, upstare, uptears.

+2 letters: abrupter, aperture, apterium, apterous, captured, capturer, captures, depurate, eupatrid, outcaper, paraquet, paroquet, parquets, pastured, pasturer, pastures, pratique, preadult, preaudit, pubertal, pyruvate, raptured, raptures, supertax, tempuras, unparted, updarted, updaters, upgather, upmarket, upstared, upstares, upstater, upstream.

+3 letters: abruptest, apertures, capturers, departure, depurated, depurates, enrapture, eupatrids, expurgate, mousetrap, outcapers, outprayed, outpreach, outspread, parachute, paraquets, paroquets, parqueted, parquetry, pasturage, pasturers, peculator, perfusate, peripatus, perpetual, pratiques, preaudits, prelature, premature, preputial, prosateur, pterosaur, purgative, pyruvates, recapture, repudiate, repugnant, reputable, reputably, septarium, sporulate, superfast, superheat, superstar, suppurate, trapezium, trapezius, ultrapure, underpart, upgathers, upperpart, upstarted, upstaters, uptearing.