transitive. To pull asunder by force (a body or substance, now esp. one of thin and flexible consistence, as cloth or paper), usually so as to…

transitive. To rend, tear, pull apart or to pieces (a person or thing). Also: to make (a hole, etc.) by rending. Also reflexive and intransitive. Now…

transitive. To tear; to split, cleave. Also intransitive.

transitive. To tear roughly; to cut (esp. flesh or tissue) with deep irregular incisions; to slice; (hence) to tear apart, to rip up.

transitive. To tear; to scratch, to cut. Now rare.

To tear apart or in pieces by pulling or tugging; to rend or lacerate. In early use also: †to destroy… transitive. figurative. Also reflexive. Now…

To rend, tear. Also intransitive for reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. To tear or rend.

transitive. To tear, cut, or scratch, esp. deeply. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To tear, rend.

transitive. To pluck, pull, tear (something) out, away, or apart; to seize forcefully, snatch. Usually in figurative context. Obsolete.

transitive. To rend or tear (something). Obsolete.

transitive. To tear or rend mutually.

transitive. To cut or tear.

transitive. To tear like a vulture. Also intransitive with down, to descend like a vulture.

intransitive. To perform the art of tearing; to make a tear or rent. to tear at, to continue to pull at in order to rend or lacerate.

intransitive and transitive. To split, tear, splinter, etc.