||Phrasal Verb Meaning
||To violently pull something into pieces.
||The vultures tore the carcass apart.
||The civil war threatens to tear the country apart.
||To upset terribly.
||It tore her apart to see so many child victims of terminal diseases in a single ward.
||To pull or attack violently.
||The puppies tore at the slipper.
||To leave or remove oneself unwillingly.
||Once he’s on the video game, it’s hard to tear him away from it.
||Several houses were torn down to make way for the new highway.
||To criticize strongly.
||I said she might be wrong and she tore into me.
||To remove one’s clothes hurriedly.
||I wasted no time in tearing my clothes off to take a shower.
||To rip into pieces.
||She tore up the letter after reading it.
||To be a cause of a failure.
||He longed to be a basketball player, but his lack of height told against him.
||To recognize or identify as different.
||It is difficult to tell the twin girls apart.
||To express disapproval of someone.
||John ran for a bus but bumped against a woman who told him off.
||To have a noticeably bad effect on someone.
||Her constant worrying is beginning to tell on her face.
|To inform on another person to the authority, especially the police.
||Are you not worried that he will tell on you?
||To bring back the memory of something that happened in the past.
||When he thinks back, he feels very lucky that he fell overboard but was not drowned.
||To have an opinion of someone.
||She doesn’t think very highly of her new daughter-in-law.
|To have an opinion of something.
||What did you think of the film?
|To come up with a new idea or plan.
||I have just thought of a way to make easy money.
|To remember something.
||I recall correctly; she lives at number 11, but I can’t think of the street.
|To have thoughtfulness towards others.
||He often thinks of others, not only of himself.
||To mentally and carefully plan something.
||Jack was the one who thought out the whole operation.
||To think carefully about something.
||Jillian prefers to think it over before deciding on his proposal.
||To consider carefully.
||Facing the choice of an overseas assignment or losing his job, George needed some time to think it through.
||To invent something.
||It was Paul who thought up the idea of a jumble sale to raise more money.
||To get rid of something that is useless.
||He is not throwing away those ten pairs of worn out shoes yet.
|To fail to make use of an opportunity, advantage, etc.
||He chose to be a backpacker and threw away a chance to go to a university.
||To add something with no additional charge to something else that is purchased.
||We decided to buy the big desk with a table lamp thrown in.
|To add something while something else is progressing.
||All eyes were drawn to the one who threw in a careless remark while the conversation was proceeding.
||To rid oneself of something.
||If only you could throw off all your negative thoughts, you wouldn’t feel the way you do.
|To quickly remove a piece of clothing.
||Each day on arriving home, this couch potato uncle of his throws off his jacket and sits down to watch television.
|To produce something in large amount.
||Can the bright moon throw off enough light for reading?
|To get rid of.
||It was only after two weeks that grandma threw off her cold.
|To break free from someone or something that following you.
||She threw the stalker off by blending into the crowd.
||To make something more accessible.
||The race was thrown open to more competitors when the age limit of participants was lowered.
||To get rid of something that is unwanted.
||Dad refused to throw out the old books and magazines that cluttered the lounge.
||The court threw out the case due to lack of evidence.
||The student was thrown out of school for unacceptable behavior.
||The treatment plant is throwing out raw sewage directly into the river.
||To abandon someone.
||She promised to never throw him over, but she broke the promise after one year.
||To make something quickly without planning or preparation.
||A sudden rainfall caused them not to dine out, but to throw something together for dinner.
|To be brought into a relationship by chance.
||Jack and Jill believed fate threw them together when as strangers they sat beside each other and began a relationship.
||Bob, as usual, threw up after he had overeaten.
|To abandon or give up.
||Halfway through her election campaign, she threw up her candidacy.
||The introduction of the new regulations is likely to throw up much controversy.
||To restrict someone’s freedom.
||They were tied down by having to work twelve hours a day.
||To connect one thing with another.
||It was a disaster when the two events didn’t tie in when they were supposed to.
|tie in with
||To bring different things into a relationship.
||The concert will tie in with the festival of dance taking place the same weekend.
||Someone tied all the flowers up in one big bunch.
|To delay or block the progress of something.
||The accident tied up traffic for hours.
|To make money not readily accessible by putting it in property, bond, share, etc.
||Most of her cash is tied up in real estate investments.
|To restrain someone by binding their hands and feet or binding them to something.
||The burglars tied him up before ransacking the house.
|To keep someone busy so that they are unavailable to do anything else.
||He was tied up in a meeting when I called.