tear into something

in. to begin eating food with gusto. The family tore into the mountain of food like they hadn’t eaten since breakfast—which was true, in fact. Jimmy tore into the turkey leg and cleaned it off in no time.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ashanti	-	Various
Ioanna	-	Greek, Biblical Greek
Chandrakant	-	Indian, Marathi, Hindi
Gerolt	KHAY-rawlt	Dutch
Aleksey	ah-lyek-SYAY (Russian), ah-leek-SYAY (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Antipater	an-TI-pə-tər (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)