torn apart
Pulled to pieces
Torn apart describes something violently separated into pieces, whether literally or figuratively.
A storm tears a building apart; grief tears a family apart.
The phrase often emphasizes emotional devastation: She was torn apart by the news.
To be torn apart by conflicting desires is to feel pulled in opposing directions, unable to reconcile them.
- rippedTorn or very muscular
- laceratedTorn with irregular edges
- rivenSplit apart violently
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- broken upDivided into parts
severed · fragmented · sundered · anguished · bereft · inconsolable · estranged · shredded · cut to pieces · rent · splintered · grief-stricken · disassembled · alienated · shattered · devastated · dismantled · divided
- broken apartasunder, broken, broken up, fragmented, in bits
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- humiliationashamed, abasement, embarrassed, chagrin, mortified
- disconnectiondisconnection, unplug, detach, sever, separation
- suffering metaphorsdrowning, bottomless pit, chains, cage, trapped
torn apartintact
Not damaged or altered
whole · in one piece · undamaged · unbroken · complete
torn apartbrought together
united · healed · reconciled · bonded · at peace
torn apartput together
Combine into one
assembled · constructed · pieced together · combined · fused
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