tear apart

1. 1.

   express a totally negative opinion of

   “The critics panned the performance”

   Synonymspantrash

   Broaderdisparage

Questions about tear apart

What does tear apart mean?

tear apart means "express a totally negative opinion of".

What is another word for tear apart?

Close synonyms include pan, trash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tear apart a common word?

tear apart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.