transitive. To pull or tear to pieces; to pull apart, wrench asunder.

transitive. To wrench apart, pull to pieces, rend; also, to tear or snatch away.

transitive. To tear to pieces.

transitive. To pull to pieces.

transitive. To rend in pieces.

To rend, to tear (clothes or the like).

transitive. To pull to pieces.

transitive. To tear limb from limb, to dismember.

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

transitive. To pull or tear (a person, a person's limbs, etc.) apart, esp. as a punishment or a form of torture; to tear to pieces; to rend…

to tear to pieces.

transitive. To pull or tear (a person, a person's limbs, etc.) apart, esp. as a punishment or a form of torture. Now only with complement, as in p…

transitive. To tear or split (something) apart; to rip or break into pieces. Frequently with asunder, (in later use) apart. Also figurative and in…

transitive. To cut or tear asunder.

transitive. To rive or tear asunder; to split open, cleave. Also figurative.

transitive. To pull asunder; to dishevel.

transitive. To pull apart, scatter; to sweep away, destroy. Obsolete.

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 pull to pieces. Also figurative.

To pull or draw asunder.

transitive. To tear at, tear, pluck. Obsolete. rare.

Senses equivalent to specific uses of pull or draw. transitive. To pull (a person or thing) apart, esp. violently; to rend; to tear to pieces…

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

= to-rend, v.

Variant of rive, v.1

transitive. To tear, rend (literal and figurative); (now esp.) to tear so as to leave ragged edges, to make ragged. Now rare.

transitive. to pull to (or in) pieces: to separate the parts of by force; to take or rip apart; to destroy, demolish; (figurative) to criticize…

transitive. To tear, pull; to rake, drag. Frequently with up. Also figurative.

transitive. To pull apart or tear to pieces; to divide into parts or pieces. Also figurative.

transitive. To pull or tear asunder, in pieces, etc. Also in extended use.

transitive. To cut, slash, or tear (something), esp. with a sharp instrument. Frequently with complement, as apart, asunder, open, etc. Also figur…

for discerp, v., to pull to pieces, divide.

transitive. To part or divide with a rift or rifts; to crack, cleave; to split apart. Also with apart, asunder.

transitive. To rend or tear in pieces.

transitive. To pull or tear apart.

transitive. To pull or tear apart, separate by force, break up. Also in extended use. Also figurative. Now chiefly U.S. with apart, up.

To tear in pieces. Obsolete.

transitive. To rend or tear badly.

To rend into parts or sections; to divide; usually implying disorder or disintegration. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To pull apart or to pieces; to tear open. Chiefly figurative.

To rend or tear asunder. Obsolete.

transitive. To tear apart; to split open; = rive, v.1

transitive. To undo the seam or seams of (a garment, etc.). Also figurative, to rip up.

transitive. To tear out or apart forcibly; (Scottish) to bring (another person's land) under cultivation without permission.

transitive. To tear apart or asunder.

trans. To tear asunder, tear in pieces. Also figurative.

To tear up. Obsolete.

transitive. To tear or reduce to tatters; to make ragged; to tear in pieces, mangle. Also figurative. to tatter a kip (slang): see kip, n.3 1.

transitive. To break, cut, or tear into fragments or shreds. Also figurative.

transitive (= rend).

transitive. To tear, rend, or pull asunder.

transitive. To tear asunder, pull to pieces. Also figurative.

transitive to tear apart at the seams.

transitive. To rend, tear; (figurative) to berate, reproach.

To rend, spoil. rare.

transitive. Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern). To tear, rip, shred; to cut. Also with off.

transitive. To tear, split, or burst (esp. a seam, etc.); to unravel. Frequently with down, up. Also intransitive.

in, into shreds: in or into small fragments. to tear to shreds (also, shred by shred): to rend into small pieces; figurative to destroy, annihilate.

transitive. To tear or cut (something, esp. a garment) to shreds.