to cut off

to tear up ②to separate (e.g. a couple)

to tear ②to cut up ③to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ④to spare (time, money, etc.)

to split

tearing limb from limb

tear

to burst (open)

Jack the Ripper

shrill

tying a person's limbs to two or four bulls and making them run in different directions (Warring States-era death penalty)

tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

to cut up small

rip

(I) won't say anything no matter what

(I) won't (say) anything no matter what (expression is followed by negative verb relating to say, answer, etc.) to not (tell) even under any threat

eel knife

to break one's heart

easily torn

avarice brings doom upon oneself

to estrange (two friends)

violent explosion

exploding

split

explosion

crack

breakdown

bomb

being torn to pieces

plosive sound

breakdown of negotiations

incoherent

internal disunity

laceration

snapping apart

cell division

torn asunder

in chaos

muscle rupture

dehiscence

nuclear fission ②karyokinesis (division of a cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis)

anal fistula

ancient cloth fragment

border strip

haori coat used by soldiers