tear out Copy link Outline 1. ēvello, velli, vulsum, 3 (the perf. evulsi once in Hor.)2. convello, velli, vulsum, 3 (to t. up entirely); soldiers t. up the lowest stones of the tower with crowbars, milites vectibus infima saxa turris convellunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 113. rĕvello, velli, vulsum, 34. vello, vulsi, vulsum, 35. haurio, hausi, haustum, 46. exscindo, scĭdi, scissum, 37. ērĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3 • tear out or up: 1. ēvello, velli, vulsum, 3 (the perf. evulsi once in Hor.): to t. out a tree, e. arborem, Liv. 33, 5. Fig.: to t. out evils by the root, e. radicitus mala, Lucr. 3, 310: consuls who deserve to be torn out of the list, consules ex fastis evellendi, Cic. Sest. 14, 33. 2. convello, velli, vulsum, 3 (to t. up entirely); soldiers t. up the lowest stones of the tower with crowbars, milites vectibus infima saxa turris convellunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 11: the bars being torn out, and the folding-doors broken in, convulsis repagulis effractisque valvis, Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 94: to t. an image out from the shrine, c. simulacrum e sacrario, id. ib. 5, 72, 187. Fig.: Rome, torn up almost from her foundations, Roma, prope convulsa sedibus suis, id. Pis. 22, 52. 3. rĕvello, velli, vulsum, 3: to t. out a stone from the mountain, r. saxum e monte, Ov. M. 12, 341: to t. out herbs by the root, r. herbas radice, id. ib. 7, 226. 4. vello, vulsi, vulsum, 3: v. pull, pluck out. 5. haurio, hausi, haustum, 4: the wind t.s up the trees from the very roots, ventus arbusta radicibus haurit ab imis, Lucr. 6, 141: to t. out the eye, h. lumen, Ov. M. 13, 564. 6. exscindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3: v. extirpate, uproot. 7. ērĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3: v. SNATCH OUT.