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

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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 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

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 Borrow, George Henry

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

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

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 Keller, Arthur Ignatius

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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

The chief was pacified, but nevertheless caused every spot which had been polluted by their unhallowed steps to be uptorn, and a fresh covering substituted.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

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 Howard, J. J.

But what could Typhoeus, and the strong Mimas, or what Porphyrion with his menacing statue; what Rhoetus, and Enceladus, a fierce darter with trees uptorn, avail, though rushing violently against the sounding shield of Pallas?

From The Works of Horace by Horace