Attach
Attach verb - To cause (something) to hold to another.
Tear
Tear verb - To cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Especially when it forces a servant to attach the mask to his face, and then only a few minutes later take it off... which requires the poor guy to tear his own face off.
Source: Murderous Mask -
However, unlike his others, he actually has to tear off his original cybernetic arm and attach the Blaster to the severed stump in order to use it.
Source: Arm Cannon -
All of them basically boil down to "attach a printer that prints stock market figures to an animal cage, let the animal in question tear the prints to shreds, pick up the shreds that are still legible afterwards and invest in those stocks".
Source: Western Animation / Pasila
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