Usually means: Remove quickly by pulling apart.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word tear away:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tear away: Merriam-Webster
  3. tear away: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tear away: Vocabulary.com
  5. tear-away: Wordnik
  6. tear away: Wiktionary
  7. tear away: Dictionary.com
  8. Tear Away: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. tear away: Rhymezone
  10. tear away: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tear away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tear away: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear away: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear away: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear away: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear away: Idioms

(Note: See tear_aways as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tear away)

verb:  (transitive, often reflexive) To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away.

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