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

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

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

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

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

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

His large full eyes in anguish rolled, His trembling limbs grew stiff and cold; Then fell he, like a tree uptorn, In woe too grievous to be borne.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

The freshets had uptorn from the banks the tallest trees, which in places formed a timber-floor; and the surf-boat gallantly charged, till she leaked, the huge trunks, over which she had often to be lifted.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The first Adventure was almost Greek in its radiant and moving simplicity; the last is Titanically Browningesque, a riot of the least Hellenic elements of Browning's mind with the uptorn fragments of the Hellenic world.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

The black death, man's height and buffalo heavy, Lay dead in the far uptorn pitying forest Where they had battled for their lives.

From The Fire Bird by Gene Stratton-Porter

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