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tearing out

tearing out is the present participle and gerund of tear out.

Meaning of tear out

Verb

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

  1. To remove by tearing.
    • We tore out the old carpeting to reveal the wood floor underneath.

Questions about tearing out

What is tearing out the present participle and gerund of?
Tearing out is the present participle and gerund of tear out.

Words near tearing out in the dictionary

  1. tearing into
  2. tearing it up
  3. tearing off
  4. tearing one's hair
  5. tearing one's hair out
  6. tearing out
  7. tearing someone a new asshole
  8. tearing someone a new one
  9. tearing someone off a strip
  10. tearing strips off someone
  11. tearing to pieces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tearing out (page history and authors); tear out (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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