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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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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.
However, a young child would have had difficulty negotiating it because of its tendency not to tear apart and to spread as it was pushed down.
It rips open bee trees to feast on honey, honeycombs, bees, and larvae, and will tear apart rotting logs for grubs, beetles, crickets, and ants.
In two weeks, I got enough information to tear apart that movie frame-by-frame.
Lots to tear apart and disagree with, there, but it's a posit.

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