tear off's Usage Examples:

off by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off").

and when the first serious challenges to combat shrink from the enemy, tear off his insignia, a deserter from the battlefield.

for the Boston Marathon, when he physically assaulted and attempted to tear off the bib number from 20 year old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer.

should be chosen with great care as this fish has the ability to bite and tear off pieces of flesh, although many who have actually kept the fish report no.

The man chanted: They rip off the nail, they tear off the nail; Blood flows like a river, rushes along like a river.

One of the scenes, in which a man is tied to two trucks that tear off his arm, is staged.

live Pavelić!' or I would tear off the other ear too.

‘Yell: “Long live Pavelić!”, or I'll tear off your nose.

For her love, the princess eventually chose to tear off the drum to betray her country.

argo tear off the single remaining palp before feeding on males.

Desktop Widgets allow the user to "tear off" a side panel and use it independently from the browser.

newspapers, comic and telephone books" during which the audience were asked to "tear off the words, staple them together, write notes, even attack and hack them".

Synonyms:

separate; pull; disunite; rip; shred; rupture; rive; bust; rend; part; snap; lacerate; rip up; tear up; divide;

Antonyms:

connect; join; stay; attach; associate;