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tear off

Separable

Remove something by pulling it away

Tear off the coupon at the bottom of the page.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

The particle: off

This verb belongs to the group ‘cutting and separating’.

Others in the group: cut off, break off.