in shreds and tatters
31total — Synonyms and related words: absolute, account, accumulative, across the board, add, add up, add up to, addend, admitting no exception, aggregate, aggregate to, all, all comprehending, all comprehensive, all covering, all embracing, all… …
32smash — Synonyms and related words: Waterloo, abrade, accident, annihilate, appulse, asphyxiate, atomize, bang, bang into, bash, bastinado, bat, be poised, bear market, bearish market, beat, beat down, beating, belt, bend, best seller, biff, big hit,… …
33pick to pieces — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
34take apart — Synonyms and related words: atomize, break to pieces, cleave, defoliate, demolish, denude, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, dismount, draw and quarter, flay, fragment, lacerate, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, mutilate, peel,… …
35tear apart — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
36tear to pieces — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
37wreck — Synonyms and related words: accident, assault, atomize, attack, auto, autocar, automobile, bankrupt, barbarize, batter, beach, blight, bloodbath, blow, blue ruin, boat, botch, break to pieces, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin,… …
38Bedizen — Be*diz en, v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. [1913 Webster] Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] …
39atomize — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrade, accelerate, activate, adduce, aerate, aerify, analyze, anatomize, beat, bombard, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, carbonate, change, chlorinate, chop logic, circumstantiate …
40cleave — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, activate, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, amputate, associate, atomize, ax, bifurcate, bisect, bite, bombard, branch, breach, break, break to pieces, broach, bunch, butcher, by two, carve, check, chink,… …
