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

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Example Sentences

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uptear uptore uptorn

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 Edward Fairfax Taylor

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 George Henry Borrow

He many others, with as little let As fennel, wall-wort-stem, or dill uptore; And ilex, knotted oak, and fir upset, And beech and mountain ash, and elm-tree hoar.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Got the whole house uptore, and Laurelly miscallin' me till I don't know which way to look; and now the little dickens is a-goin' to git well all right.

From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller

I dream’d that each of my little pups    Was become at once a savage boar; Through my garden wall they broke, and all    My pleasant herbs and roots uptore.

From Marsk Stig a ballad by George Henry Borrow

The paroxysm scourged the shore at the same time that it uptore the depths of ocean.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

He said he crawled back into the cave and sat with his back against the uptorn roots, and thought.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

"Each beloved object born Sets within the heart a thorn, Bleeding, when they be uptorn."

From Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Sir Edwin Arnold

After two previous months of quiet, the whirl-about made me feel very "like an ocean weed uptorn And loose along the world of waters borne."

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey

It is most difficult to put your finger on a single spot of the world-map that is not being torn and uptorn by unrest in one shape or another.

From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

The woods upon his throat shall press, “And weight for wounds shall serve.—The centaur spoke, “Seizing a tree which lay by chance uptorn “By raging Auster; on his valiant foe “The bulk he hurl'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

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