tear up

See: tear (“to rip, shred”).

• "The lacrosse practice really tore up the field."
• "You talk about the same thing but from different points of view. He is saying, "Didn't hurt the car much." You're saying "He's tearing up the car and we're having to make payments on it.""
• "We were making a joke about him not tearing it up; because the first person that puts a dent in it is going to get in trouble."
• "In his first year, his hitting tore up the league's opposing pitchers."
• "Taking advantage of her haughty obliviousness—Faris is every bit Margaret Dumont to Baron Cohen’s Groucho—Aladeen conspires to seize power back and tear up the new constitution before it’s too late."