{"id":264,"date":"2013-03-17T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2013-03-17T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:11:20","slug":"phrasal-verb-tear-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: tear up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. tear <\/strong>something <\/b><\/i>up
    \n<\/strong>Transitive, Separable
    \nMeaning: <\/strong><\/em>to rip into pieces
    \nExample: <\/strong>I tore up<\/strong> the forms with my personal information before I threw them in the trash.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not to be confused with:<\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201ctear up\u201d
    \n<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Intransitive
    \n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Meaning<\/strong>:<\/strong> to start to develop tears
    \n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Example: <\/strong>She teared up<\/strong> during the movie.<\/p>\n

    Did you know that women blink nearly twice as much as men?\u00a0 Maybe women\u2019s eyes naturally cleanse themselves more often causing them to tear up<\/strong> more easily than men?<\/em><\/p>\n

    On average, women cry about five times a month.\u00a0 And men cry about once every month or two.\u00a0 Do you know why?\u00a0 Women produce more prolactin, the hormone that controls the neurotransmitter receptors in our tear glands.\u00a0 Women\u2019s tear ducts (the place where tears come from)<\/i> are anatomically different than male tear ducts<\/i>, resulting in a larger volume of tears.\u00a0 Now when I cry I can blame it on biology!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    tear something up Transitive, Separable Meaning: to rip into pieces Example: I tore up the forms with my personal information before I threw them in the trash. Not to be confused with: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201ctear up\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}