tear apart, rip apart, shred

(assumed tropical:) He scattered, or dispersed. (Kur, xxxiv, 18; and Expos. of the Jeláleyn.) ― -b2- [مَرَّقَ, used tropically, may sometimes be rendered (assumed tropical:) He mangled, rent much, or dissundered; but more generally, (assumed tropical:) he, or it, shattered, disorganized, or dissipated; or (assumed tropical:) he, or it, marred, or impaired; being opposed to أَصْلَحَ, or to رَقَعَ or رَقَّعَ, in the sense of أَصْلَحَ, as in an ex. cited voce رَقَعَ; sometimes several of these renderings will be found to be appropriate in a single instance. You say, مَزَّقَ عِرْضَهُ (assumed tropical:) He mangled, rent, or shattered, or marred, his honour, or reputation. And مَزَّقَ عَقْلَهُ, and رَأْيَهُ, and أَمْرَهُ, (assumed tropical:) It shattered, or disorganized or dissipated, or it marred or impaired, his intellect, and his judgment, and his state of affairs or circumstances.] ― -b3- مَزَِّقَهُ He rent it, or tore it, much; or in several, or many, places. mangled, or dissundered, it; and cut it much; &c. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) [His intellect became shattered, or dissipated, or impaired]. (TA in art. رَقَعَ.) And تَمَزَّقَ عَلَيْهِ رَأْيُهُ وَأَمْرُهُ (assumed tropical:) [His judgment, and his state of affairs or circumstances, became shattered, disorganized, dissipated, marred, or impaired. (A and TA in art. رقع.) See مَزَّقَ, of which تَمَزَّقَ is quasi-pass. ― -b2- تَمَزَّقُوا (assumed tropical:) They became scattered, or dispersed. (TA.) ― -b3- تَمَزَّقَ عِرْضُهُ (assumed tropical:) His honour, or reputation, became mangled, rent, or shattered, or marred.

The rending, tearing, or slitting, a garment and the like. (JK.)

A piece torn off of a garment (S, K *) &c. (K.)

[A she-camel] whose skin almost becomes rent in pieces by reason of her swiftness. (O in art. عنسق.)