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2016年8月14日 · 'Welled up', 'choked up' and 'teared up' sound very natural, modern colloquial ways of saying 'tears came into my eyes' or 'My eyes welled with tears or 'My voice was choked with tears'. I'd have to look up N-gram to see what the frequency of these various terms is.
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2017年4月26日 · "teared" is the past of "to tear" meaning "to fill up / overflow with tears" e.g. I was so moved by the music that I teared up.
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2014年1月16日 · I tore up my clothes. and I tore my clothes. Actually, I'm not sure how to use this phrasal verb "tear up", but I have read that TEAR and TEAR UP have the same meaning (I'm talking about the verbs of course). tear: to separate parts of or pull apart by force : Could someone help me? Thank you
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2005年8月26日 · I often see "tear up" used to mean "break into tears" in American magazines. A recent example: "I really failed Casey: I really did", she says, tearing up This usage is not recorded in any of my (British) dictionaries, which only list tear as a noun. One American dictionary does list tear as...
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2015年9月14日 · Probably a quibble on my part at this point in the thread, and probably more for the benefit of future non-native speakers of English, but the welling up of tears in the eyes with perhaps a tear or two escaping down a cheek is not "crying." "Tears welled up in his eyes during his daughter's wedding." "His eyes teared up at the funeral." He didn ...
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2018年5月5日 · Mom teared up on cue. I have always had trouble with "tear" because it has two different meaning and even pronunciations, as far as I understand. I find that tear up could be "romper en mil pedazos" o "lagrimear".
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2022年5月1日 · The teacher found a piece of paper on the floor and tore it up/ripped it up. By adding "up" I ensure that the reader knows the teacher's action was deliberate and the paper wasn't torn accidentally when the teacher got hold of it. "Rip" sounds more violent than "tear". If he was angry, he ripped the paper up.
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2011年10月26日 · Tearing up is not possible for eyes filling with tears. And of course the pronunciation would tell you if it was tearing up (dechirer) or tearing up (larmer) - you see there is no French verb larmer so why expect an English one : to tear meaning to cry or to shed tears. I won't argue with wildan on its use in AE but it is not English / British ...
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2014年12月3日 · I realize that most people would probably choose "tear up" in this sentence. "He was so angry that he tore up/tore the letter." It is often used in collocation with paper. Would "tear" not "tear up" change the meaning dramatically. I realize that "up" modifies the verb to some extent in this context, but wouldn't they have the same basic meaning.
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2014年1月13日 · ¡Hola! Es una pregunta un poco estúpida pero no encuentro la respuesta por ningún lado. El pasado de tear up en este contexto (en el de llorar, "I tear up everytime I see the old photograph") cuando se usa pasado se usa tore como sería comunmente del verbo tear o se usa "teared"? ¡Saludos y...