What does tear away mean?

tear away means "remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully".

What is another word for tear away?

Close synonyms include tear off, rip off. 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 away a common word?

tear away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Tear away — meaning, 2 synonyms and examples

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully
“The passing bus tore off her side mirror”
Synonymstear off rip off
Broaderremove

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What does tear away mean?: tear away means "remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully".
What is another word for tear away?: Close synonyms include tear off, rip off. 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 away a common word?

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