tear
To pull apart or into pieces by force; rend.
To make (an opening) by ripping
To lacerate
To separate forcefully; wrench
To divide or disrupt
To separate forcefully; wrench
To divide or disrupt
tear up
To tear to pieces.
To make an opening in
To tear to pieces.
To make an opening in
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"
(Anna Letitia Barbauld)
*Photo by Thestargazer23
No Music
I'll tell you a sore truth, little understood
It's harder to leave, than to be left:
To stay, to leave, both sting wrong.
You will always have me to blame,
Can dream we might have sailed on;
From absence's rib, a warm fiction.
To tear up old love by the roots,
To trample on past affections:
There is no music for so harsh a song.
John Montague