Torn means ripped, with an open split in the fabric. A torn page, torn jeans, torn in half.
It is the past participle of tear, which rhymes with air rather than with ear. Of a muscle or ligament, torn is the medical term: a torn hamstring. Figuratively, torn between means unable to choose: torn between two jobs, torn about whether to go — and that use is one of the commonest ways English describes indecision. Note torn apart, meaning both physically destroyed and deeply distressed.
1adjectivetornRipped, with an open split.
“The page was torn out and nobody admitted to it.”
2adjectiveunableUnable to choose between two things.
“She was torn between the two for about a fortnight.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
torn is a ripped or divided state.