tear into

Strong match

• tackle

Weak matches

• buckle down
• deal with
• dive into
• plunge into
• set to
• start in on
• take up

Strongest matches

• begin
• inaugurate
• initiate
• launch
• take up

Strong matches

• arise
• open
• originate

Weak matches

• come into being
• come into existence
• embark on
• enter upon
• get cracking
• get going
• get one's feet wet
• get show on road
• hit the ground running
• jump into
• kick off
• lead off
• start the ball rolling

Weak matches

• bawl out
• berate
• carpet
• castigate
• censure
• chew out
• lash
• rail
• rake over coals
• ream
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reprove
• tell off
• tongue-lash
• upbraid

Strongest matches

• berate
• castigate
• chastise
• condemn
• lambaste
• lash
• rebuke
• reproach
• revile
• scold
• upbraid
• vilify

Strong matches

• attack
• blister
• censure
• flay
• reprove
• scorch
• slash

Weak match

• scathe

Strongest matches

• berate
• castigate
• scold

Strong matches

• abuse
• attack
• baste
• belabor
• blister
• censure
• flay
• fulminate
• jaw
• lambaste
• lampoon
• ridicule
• satirize
• upbraid

Weak matches

• bawl out
• chew out
• exprobate
• tell off
• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• assail
• berate
• damn
• decry
• defame
• denigrate
• denounce
• disparage
• malign
• mistreat
• revile
• slander
• smear

Strong matches

• abuse
• asperse
• attack
• blister
• censure
• curse
• cuss
• debase
• dig
• jinx
• knock
• libel
• pan
• rap
• roast
• scorch
• slam
• slur
• traduce
• vituperate
• voodoo

Weak matches

• bad-mouth
• call down
• caluminate
• dress down
• dump on
• give a black eye
• mudsling
• put a whammy on
• put down
• rag on
• rip up
• run down
• skin alive
• speak ill of
• tear down

Strong matches

• abuse
• accuse
• asperse
• berate
• blame
• calumniate
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• curse
• denounce
• growl
• insult
• lambaste
• lash
• malign
• rail
• rate
• reproach
• revile
• scold
• smear
• traduce
• upbraid
• vilify

Weak matches

• bark at
• bawl out
• chew out
• find fault
• rip into
• run down
• tongue-lash
• yell at

Strongest matches

• bathe
• paddle
• splash
• stumble
• trek

Strong matches

• attack
• attempt
• drudge
• ford
• initiate
• labor
• launch
• start
• tackle
• toil
• walk

Weak matches

• fall to
• get feet wet
• get stuck in
• go for
• jump in
• light into
• pitch in
• set about
• set to
• work through