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torn away

torn away is the past participle of tear away.

Meaning of tear away

Verb

tear away (third-person singular simple present tears away, present participle tearing away, simple past tore away, past participle torn away)

  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.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away.

Questions about torn away

What is torn away the past participle of?
Torn away is the past participle of tear away.

Words near torn away in the dictionary

  1. torn a cat
  2. torn along
  3. torn apart
  4. torn ass
  5. torn at
  6. torn away
  7. torn down
  8. torn into
  9. torn it up
  10. torn off
  11. torn one's hair

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Adapted from Wiktionary: torn away (page history and authors); tear away (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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