to criticize someone or something very angrily
to physically attack someone or something
to start doing something with a lot of energy or enthusiasm
But as I watched his long, white teeth tear into the meat, I realized that he was devouring it with great speed.
He tore into the larger boy, punching him furiously.
She really tore into me for forgetting to send it.
The girls tore into their chores and were finished within an hour.
Under a rapidly lowering sky, we watched them remove squares of sod from atop a grave and then tear into the earth with a backhoe.
tears into
tearing into
tore into
torn into
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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