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"text": "I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it.",
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},
{
"text": "Could I please tear you away from that video game for a moment?",
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},
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75",
"text": "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, [...].",
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"To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed."
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"(transitive, often reflexive) To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"word": "repiä irti"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
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"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "відрива́ти"
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"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otryvátʹsja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "отрыва́ться"
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"roman": "otorvátʹsja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
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"perfective"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"word": "slita sig (från)"
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away."
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"text": "I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it.",
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},
{
"text": "Could I please tear you away from that video game for a moment?",
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},
{
"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75",
"text": "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, [...].",
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"To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed."
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"(transitive, often reflexive) To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed."
],
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},
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away."
],
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"tear",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"word": "repiä irti"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odrywać"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
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},
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"roman": "vidryváty",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "відрива́ти"
},
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"roman": "vidirváty",
"sense": "(transitive) to remove a reluctant person",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "відірва́ти"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"word": "irtautua"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otryvátʹsja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отрыва́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otorvátʹsja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оторва́ться"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"word": "slita sig (från)"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidryvátysja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "відрива́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidirvátysja",
"sense": "(reflexive) to remove oneself reluctantly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "відірва́тися"
}
],
"word": "tear away"
}
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