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If you tear up an agreement, you refuse to accept it or be controlled by it any more:

In basketball , if a team clears out, the players run to different parts of the court (= playing area) after one player on the team gets the ball in order for that player to have room to move. :

to act like a vamp :

to immediately offer someone a job or position because you want them very much:

to increase the speed, power, or cost of something:

If a river, lake, etc. dries up, the water in it disappears.

to cause someone pain:

(of something bad) to increase:

to prepare, organize, or arrange something:

to start a machine, piece of equipment, computer program, etc.:

a full-size model of something large that has not yet been built, showing how it will look or operate:

to try to find a piece of information by looking in a book or on a computer:

something that is done wrong or badly:

to collect or achieve a large number of similar things:

to get the things or people you need, with difficulty or by looking in various places:

to steal from a place or person, using a gun as a threat: