裂

to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

bursting; rupture; explosion

breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off

to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided

crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift

violent explosion; bursting

split; division; break up

tear; rip; rent; slit; crack; chasm; rift

Linguistics

plosive sound

exploding

breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off; rupture

female genitalia

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to tear to pieces

to (forcibly) separate (a couple, family, etc.); to force apart; to tear apart

to burst (open); to break; to split

tearing limb from limb; tearing apart; cutting (a person) to pieces

incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical

laceration

cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth

shrieking sound; woman's scream; loud scream

cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

snapping apart

Anatomy

pudendal cleft; vulvar cleft

nuclear fission

karyokinesis (division of a cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis)

bomb; bombshell

Abbreviation

schizophrenia

small piece (e.g. of cloth)

tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)