What is "tore up"

Usage examples of "tore up".

He believes they built their sites almost openly wanting you to detect them and you did and then there was a lot of saber-rattling, the whole world's frightened to death, and in exchange for the Soviet agreement to take the missiles out of Cuba your President tore up your Monroe Doctrine, the cornerstone of your whole security system.

The loup-garou tore up the earth where I had been standing when it came down, and turned toward me again, facing me across a scant ten feet of space, from one side of the square pit to the side adjacent to it.

Instead he tore up a handful of long grass and threw it at Mabon’.

She traced the bars of his ribs with her fingers, and his tongue came out of his face like a battering ram and tore up through the roof of her mouth to lick her brain.

Alma told you my father had a change of heart and tore up that new will before he died.

Damn thing tore up the ground, burned all the trees, poisoned everything for a long time.

I tore up strips of the plaster and stretched them across the face of the torch until there was only a quarter inch diameter hole left in the middle.

She chewed on the plastic straw till it was useless, and tore up several napkins.