TEAR OUT

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Example:

extract information from the telegram

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "tear out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tear out"):

squeeze out; wring out (extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)

demodulate (extract information from a modulated carrier wave)

thread (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP