uptear

American  

[uhp-tair] / ʌpˈtɛər /

verb (used with object)

uptore, uptorn, uptearing

1. to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.

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Etymology

Origin of uptear

First recorded in 1585–95; up- + tear ²

Example Sentences

Go, sister, meekly tell the haughty foe, Not I at Aulis with the Greeks did swear To smite the Trojans and their towers o'erthrow, Nor sought his father's ashes to uptear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear, His servants rapacious the tree will uptear; For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour.

From Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian by Borrow, George Henry