TEARING (OUT) Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

tearing (out)

verb

Definition of tearing (out)

present participle of tear (out)

as in pulling

to draw out by force or with effort you'll never tear that secret out of me

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One of the most fun parts of writing comedy is coming up with alt after alt after alt for a joke, pulling ever-increasingly stupid punch lines out of one’s ass.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
The deputy made a U-turn and saw the man, who deputies say is 49-year-old Brenton Burke, kneeling under the truck’s steering column and pulling wires, the arrest report states.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulling

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Or prying mussels off rocks along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula.

— Rachel Levin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Musk already has this via Larry, a close business associate who bankrolled the Twitter buy, but writing an eleven-figure check has a funny way of prying open the canal further.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of prying

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However, extracting it from underground brines, hard rock and recycled batteries remains challenging because it is often mixed with sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
While Evernote sought to combat negative new registrations after its acquisition, Inkdrop’s developer was less concerned about growing its customer base and more interested in extracting additional revenue from current users.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

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