TEAR OUT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tear out mean? 

• TEAR OUT (verb)
  The verb TEAR OUT has 1 sense:

1. remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

  Familiarity information: TEAR OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEAR OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out

Context example:

extract information from the telegram

Hypernyms (to "tear out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tear out"):

squeeze out; wring out (extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)

demodulate (extract information from a modulated carrier wave)

thread (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string)

Sentence frames:

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Something ----s something
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