English-German translations for tear up

• zerreißen
  Herr Präsident, ich werde Ihnen helfen und meine Rede zerreißen - ich weiß, sie wollen, daß wir hiermit zügig vorankommen. Mr President, I will help you and tear up my speech - I know that you want us to get on with this.
  Dann beschließt Ihr Nachbar, dieses internationale Abkommen zu zerreißen und einseitig zu erklären, dass er seinen Anteil an dem Rohstoff, von dem Ihr Unternehmen abhängt, massiv erweitert. Then your neighbour decides to tear up that international agreement and unilaterally declare that they are massively extending their share of the natural resource that your business depends upon.

Definition of tear up

• To tear into pieces
• To damage
• To succeed dramatically in or against
• To wrench out of the ground
• To have intense penetrative sex with
• To brutally assault
• To shed tears

Examples

• The student tore up his test after he found out his mark of 20%
• The lacrosse practice really tore up the field
• In his first year, his hitting tore up the leagues opposing pitchers
• We tore up the weeds from the allotment
• Chad tore up Stacy after that party
• Jason tore up Todd after finding out that he was having sex with his sister
• After seeing Johnny tear up at that cheesy movie, I knew he was a loser

Related words

• tear it up