Dictionary

tear away en · VERB

Meanings

1. (often, reflexive, transitive) To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed.
   • I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it.
   • Watching the world go by is so much fun that I have to tear myself away to catch my next service - LNER's 'Highland Chieftain' worked by a bi-mode Class 800 Azuma, [...]. 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
   • Could I please tear you away from that video game for a moment?
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away.

Forms

Translations (11)

fi irtautua ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · uk відірва́тися ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · fi repiä irti ((transitive) to remove a reluctant person) · uk відрива́тися ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · ru отрыва́ться ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · ru оторва́ться ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · uk відрива́ти ((transitive) to remove a reluctant person) · uk відірва́ти ((transitive) to remove a reluctant person) · pl odrywać ((transitive) to remove a reluctant person) · sv slita sig (från) ((reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly) · pl oderwać ((transitive) to remove a reluctant person)