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Definition of Tear up
1. Verb. Tear into shreds.
Specialized synonyms: Tease
Generic synonyms: Bust, Rupture, Snap, Tear
Derivative terms: Shred, Shred, Shredder
Definition of Tear up
1. Verb. (transitive) To tear into pieces. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To damage. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To shed tears. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To wrench out of the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tear Up
Literary usage of Tear up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... Images—The Anchor of Faith—A Roman Camp —Preaching of Faith and Works—Tyndale
accused by the Priests— They tear up what he has planted—Tyndale resolves ..."
2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"1. to pull out, tear out, draw out; 2. to uproot, to tear up (by the roots), to
pluck up (weeds, &c.); cine gt'tet —, to pluck a feather; 11. n. ..."
3. Report on the Geology of the Coastal Plain of Alabama by Geological Survey of Alabama, Eugene Allen Smith, Daniel W. Langdon, jr, Truman Heminway Aldrich, K. M. Cunningham (1894)
"tear up Creek.—A few miles above Bridgeport, at the mouth of tear up Creek, Mr.
Johnson obtained in 1883 a good section of the beds underlying those of the ..."
4. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"OP3 to tear up BC. the ground, to break up, ... PIEL to tear up or off, eg bands,
to break, burst, Judg. 16, 9. Ps. 2, 3. 107, 14. Jer. 2, 20. ..."
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