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tear to pieces

tear to pieces verb: to tear apart.

Verb

tear to pieces (third-person singular simple present tears to pieces, present participle tearing to pieces, simple past tore to pieces, past participle torn to pieces)

  1. (figuratively, sometimes) To tear apart.
    Synonyms:
    take to pieces, pick to pieces, rip to pieces, pull to pieces, tear to shreds

tear to pieces meaning in Sanskrit

tear to pieces in Sanskrit

to tear to pieces, to wrench
दॄ dṝ

Synonyms of tear to pieces

Forms of tear to pieces

third-person singular presenttears to pieces
present participletearing to pieces
pasttore to pieces
past participletorn to pieces

Questions about tear to pieces

What does tear to pieces mean?
Tear to pieces means to tear apart.
What is tear to pieces in Sanskrit?
Tear to pieces in Sanskrit is दॄ (dṝ). See Tear to pieces meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is tear to pieces?
Tear to pieces is a verb.
What is the past tense of tear to pieces?
The past tense of tear to pieces is tore to pieces.

Words near tear to pieces in the dictionary

  1. tear strip
  2. tear strips
  3. tear strips off someone
  4. tear tape
  5. tear tapes
  6. tear to pieces
  7. tear to shreds
  8. tear up
  9. tear up the dance floor
  10. tear up the pea patch
  11. tear-ass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tear to pieces (page history and authors); दॄ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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