déchirer: v. tear, tear up, rip, rip off, rip up, cut up, bite, jag, divide, disrupt, torpedo, debase, indent, lacerate, rend, rive, sever, slit, snag, smite, cleave, unseam
se déchirer: v. tear along, rip, part, rend, rive, split, pull; go off the deep end
