tear apart

Astarquake is thought to be the tearing apart of the surface of a neutron star, much like an earthquake here on Earth.

A tooth adapted FOR tearing apart flesh, especially one of the last upper premolar or first lower molar teeth in carnivorous mammals.

It cannot be the case, either, that the hysteric's division, symptomatic tearing apart, is motivated as the production of knowledge.

It's the tearing apart of that matter as it falls into the black hole that creates the X-rays.

The steady tearing apart of the Atlantic is forcing the S America Plate at this point to push under the Caribbean Plate.

Most of his short professional life has been correcting just one thing, the violence tearing apart his own country.

The fiendish sprites were often described tearing apart fighter craft in flight in the folklore that spread during the war years.

The Death Star's prime weapon unleashed unthinkable levels of raw energy capable of tearing apart entire worlds.

Does pulled apart mean more of a slip-slide tearing apart along the fault line or is it more of a stretching apart away from the fault line?

At the Global Armor plant on the outskirts of Mexico City, workers are busy tearing apart a new, snow-white BMW.

I don't believe this, RICH countries tearing apart mother AFRICA LIKE THAT, IT IS NOT COOL.

When PCB baptistined in insulating paint at high temperature, there will don't leave any remnant after tearing apart from goldfinger .

there's a black lantern bettery--it's huge --somewhere in deep space -- rings ---black rings -- a guardian's tearing apart other guardians.

SCULLY: There are agents tearing apart Mulder's office who say they're part of an FBI manhunt.

Tearing apart on account of centrifugal force

To affect with force in a way that suggests tearing apart:

Rip implies rough or forcible tearing apart or away, often along a dividing line such as a seam or joint:

Players from Last Year's FA Youth Cup Are Tearing Apart the Reserve League