THESAURUS
tear apart
atomize, break to pieces, carp, catch at straws, cavil, cleave, cut up, defoliate, demolish, denude, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, draw and quarter, fault-find, find fault, flay, fragment, lacerate, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, mutilate, nitpick, peel, pettifog, pick holes, pick to pieces, pull apart, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, quibble, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, shred, skin, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take exception, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack up, wreck
