torn up
Ripped apart emotionally
Torn up describes something ripped into pieces: The letter was torn up and thrown away.
More often it describes emotional distress—being deeply upset or conflicted: She was torn up about the decision, He's really torn up over the breakup.
A road or field that's torn up has been damaged or disrupted, its surface broken and rough.
- rippedTorn or very muscular
- frayedUnraveled at edges
- shreddedTorn into strips
- tatteredRipped and worn out
- brokeLacking any funds
ripped apart · lacerated · grief-stricken · heartbroken · anguished · devastated · inconsolable · tormented · distraught · destroyed · rent · rag · split · mangled · shattered · gutted · crumpled · in pieces
- mood idiomsbad mood, black mood, dark mood, foul mood, in a mood
- overwhelmedstressed, overwhelmed, stressed out, burnt out, burned out