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What does tear apart mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see tear,‎ apart.
  2. (transitive) to destroy
  3. (transitive) to cause to separate
  4. (transitive, figuratively) to severely defeat
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And the horde charged once more, their nerves steeled and their war-cries resonating, ready to shred, rend and tear apart any foe, be it human or not.
This issue promises to ruin lives, tear apart homes and throw small communities in rural Canada into economic chaos.
They tear apart the social fabric, and tear apart any notion of a social contract.
Such dichotomies disunite us and tear apart the fabric of the body of the Lord, he said.
Lots to tear apart and disagree with, there, but it's a posit.
The strands glue themselves together into a resilient fabric that I cannot tear apart with my fingers.

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