"tear into" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tears into",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tearing into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tore into",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "torn into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tear<,,tore,torn> into"
      },
      "expansion": "tear into (third-person singular simple present tears into, present participle tearing into, simple past tore into, past participle torn into)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC",
          "text": "They tore into a stunned City and there was only a minute on the clock when Samir Nasri slipped Jack Wilshere into the area, the 19-year-old's left-foot pass to the far post agonisingly evading a lunging Van Persie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative."
      ],
      "id": "en-tear_into-en-verb-SHkO5lPH",
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lace into"
        },
        {
          "word": "lay into"
        },
        {
          "word": "light into"
        },
        {
          "word": "rip into"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛə(ɹ) ˈɪntu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tear into"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tears into",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tearing into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tore into",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "torn into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tear<,,tore,torn> into"
      },
      "expansion": "tear into (third-person singular simple present tears into, present participle tearing into, simple past tore into, past participle torn into)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Violence"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC",
          "text": "They tore into a stunned City and there was only a minute on the clock when Samir Nasri slipped Jack Wilshere into the area, the 19-year-old's left-foot pass to the far post agonisingly evading a lunging Van Persie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛə(ɹ) ˈɪntu/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lace into"
    },
    {
      "word": "lay into"
    },
    {
      "word": "light into"
    },
    {
      "word": "rip into"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tear into"
}