Adjective
(US, slang) unsightly, unkempt, dirty
She went into rehab tore up but cleaned up quite nicely before her departure.
(US, slang) particularly drunk
I got three pounds of ice, a gallon of Jack, a half-gallon of Reyka, two gallons of Jäger and a rainbow of mixers. Tonight we're gettin' tore up from the floor up.
(Southern US) Damaged, hurt or broken
I didn't call you, 'cause my phone's all tore up.
He's been tore up real bad since his boy died.
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely. John Mayer
The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour. Philip K. Dick
Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. Katherine Mansfield