Synonyms for torn up

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : teer

Phonetic Transcription : tɪər

Top 10 synonyms for torn up

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Définition of torn up

Origin : 1650s, mainly in American English, from tear (n.1). Related: Teared; tearing. Old English verb tæherian did not survive into Middle English.

As in melancholy : adj depressed, sad
As in melancholic : adj depressed
As in tristful : adj depressed
As in depressed : adj discouraged
As in disconsolate : adj depressed, unhappy
As in raze : verb flatten, knock down; wipe out
As in uproot : verb destroy; rip out of a place
As in wreck : verb ruin, destroy

Example sentences :

I had no doubt that the bridge was down, or, if not, that its flooring was torn up.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

And a watchman looking at half a dozen lanterns, where a street's been torn up.
Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort

The trees were cut, the earth was torn up; there was a howling as of unchained fiends.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

"No," and the Lensman tore up the check just as he had torn up the resignation.
Extract from : « The Vortex Blaster » by Edward Elmer Smith

It was a thing to be stamped out, to be torn up by the roots.
Extract from : « The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice » by Stephen Leacock

Never employ an awl for this work, as the fiber of the wood will be torn up by it.
Extract from : « Carpentry for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe

If there was a square foot that hadn't been torn up I couldn't see it with the naked eye.
Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford

I found that a portion of the carpet had been torn up, and I pulled it over.
Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic

The paper was then at once torn up into the most minute particles.
Extract from : « Across the Spanish Main » by Harry Collingwood

"He threw some bits of paper he had torn up into the water," added Peaks.
Extract from : « Down the Rhine » by Oliver Optic

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