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1. Having edges that are jagged from injury
   - lacerate, lacerated, mangled
    
2. Disrupted by the pull of contrary forces
   "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

1. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
   "tear the paper"
   - rupture, snap, bust
    
2. To separate or be separated by force
    
3. Move quickly and violently
   "The car tore down the street"
   - shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit]
    
4. Strip of feathers
   - pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume

1. Fill with tears or shed tears

See also: divided, injured, tear apart, tear down, tear up, tearing

Type of: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, cry, disunite, divide, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, part, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, separate, speed, step on it, strip, weep

Encyclopedia: Tear