pull sth apart
— phrasal verb with pull uk/pʊl/us/pʊl/verb
(DESTROY)
to destroy something by tearing it into pieces
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Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- break (sth) off
- breakage
- catch
- fall apart
- flake
- fragment
- fragmented
- fray
- frayed
- in ribbons idiom
- knacker
- rent
- rip
- shear
- split
- tear sth up
- torn
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(CRITICIZE)
to say that something, usually a piece of work, is very bad:
The last essay I gave him he completely pulled apart.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pick holes in sth idiom
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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