Attach and Tear

Attach

Attach verb - To cause (something) to hold to another.

Tear is an antonym for attach.

Tear

Tear verb - To cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it.

Attach is an antonym for tear in cut topic.

Nearby Words: tearful, tearing, teary, teardrop, tearless

Common collocations

soul attach soul tear soul
parts attach parts tear parts
head attach head tear head
monster attach monster tear monster
Other words: damage, arms, gun, weapons, ships.

Both words in one sentence

  • Murderous Mask 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.
  • Arm Cannon 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
  • Western Animation / Pasila 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".
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