Antonyms for tears up
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : teer |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɪər |
Definition of tears 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 raze : verb flatten, knock down; wipe out
- As in uproot : verb destroy; rip out of a place
- As in wreck : verb ruin, destroy
- If he tears up his card or picks up his ball he'll disqualify himself.
- Extract from : « Fore! » by Charles Emmett Van Loan
- Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of liberty, he tears up the pavements.
- Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
- When its velocity is one hundred miles an hour, it tears up trees, and devastates its track.
- Extract from : « The Reason Why » by Anonymous
- "Tut, tut," said Miss Prettyman as Grace in vain tried to conceal her tears up in the private sanctum.
- Extract from : « The Last Chronicle of Barset » by Anthony Trollope
- It tears up the trees by the roots, floods the land, darkens utterly my poor quiet universe.
- Extract from : « Vittoria, Complete » by George Meredith
- She might make a Breach of Promise out of this, (tears up letter and pockets the pieces) I'd better blurt it out.
- Extract from : « Oh! Susannah! » by Mark Ambient
- Goes to fire, tears up the letter in little pieces, watches them burn.
- Extract from : « Michael and His Lost Angel » by Henry Arthur Jones
- All is silent, save the heavy plunge of the tapir in the river, as he tears up the water-weeds for his night's repast.
- Extract from : « Westward Ho! » by Charles Kingsley
- We thus see with what an easy conscience Germany tears up her treaties and how she repudiates her most solemn pledges.
- Extract from : « The Great War and How It Arose » by Anonymous
- He digs out rich willow and aspen roots in the shallow and soft places, and tears up numerous plants for their roots or tubers.
- Extract from : « Watched by Wild Animals » by Enos A. Mills
Synonyms for tears up
- abate
- abolish
- annihilate
- bash
- batter
- beach
- blot out
- blow down
- bomb
- break
- break down
- bulldoze
- capsize
- cast down
- crack up
- crash
- cripple
- dash
- decimate
- delete
- demolish
- deracinate
- destroy
- devastate
- dig up
- dilapidate
- disable
- displace
- do away with
- do in
- dynamite
- efface
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- excavate
- exile
- expunge
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- extract
- fell
- founder
- impair
- injure
- level
- mangle
- mar
- mess up
- move
- mow down
- obliterate
- overthrow
- overturn
- pile up
- pull down
- pull up
- put out of commission
- ravage
- raze
- reduce
- remove
- root out
- rub out
- ruin
- run aground
- sabotage
- scatter
- scratch out
- scuttle
- shatter
- shipwreck
- sink
- smash
- smash up
- spill
- spoil
- strand
- strike out
- subvert
- take apart
- take out
- tear down
- tear up
- throw down
- topple
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- unbuild
- undermine
- undo
- unmake
- upset
- vandalize
- weed
- weed out
- wipe out
- wrack
- wrack up
- wreck
- zap
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