Wiktionary
vb. To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.
WordNet
v. hit violently, as in an attack [syn: lam into, lace into, pitch into, lay into]
Usage examples of "tear into".
Monday sat a little apart, looking like a small storm cloud, and drizzled an occasional tear into her plate.
Somewhat as the strength of a rope determines the likelihood that vigorous pulling and shaking will cause it to tear into two pieces, there is a number that determines the likelihood that quantum fluctuations will cause a single string to split into two strings, momentarily yielding a virtual pair.
She'd done her best to tear into him, and he had slapped her down like a child.
Didi corrected Laura, and she began to tear into a sausage and biscuit.
He did not tear into his food, although with such small portions as Count Lavastine spared him, he must be hungry all the time.
The thing crouched in front of Victor, its lightning blue eyes whirling with shades of scarlet hate, staring up at the black-clad wizard, trembling with the need to tear into him, to rend and destroy the mortal being who had dared summon it forth.
He willed Iridea's Tear into a two-foot shield and advanced on the Taker.
I was about to tear into the old man for obstructing justice when Oakley cut me off with a shake of his head.