Usually means: Ripping material apart into pieces.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word tearing:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. tearing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tearing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tearing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tearing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tearing, tearing: Wordnik
  7. tearing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tearing: Wiktionary
  9. tearing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tearing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tearing: Dictionary.com
  12. tearing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Tearing (song), Tearing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tearing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tearing: Rhymezone
  16. Tearing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tearing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tearing: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tearing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tearing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tearing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tearing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tearing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tearing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tearing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tearing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tearing)

adjective:  (colloquial) enormous; of great size or impact
adjective:  (colloquial) very hasty
noun:  The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
noun:  (computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
noun:  (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora

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