v. [UP- 4 + TEAR v.1 Cf. UPTORN.] trans. To pull up by the roots or from the foundation; to rend up, tear out.

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1593.  Sidney’s Arcadia, Wks. 1922, II. 240. The laborer which cursed earthe uppteares With sweatye browes.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VI. 663. The rest in imitation to like Armes Betook them, and the neighbouring Hills uptore.

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1786.  Burns, To Mountain Daisy, v. But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies!

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1803.  Leyden, Scenes Infancy, III. xxii. The forest bull, that … the ground uptore.

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1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, II. 195. He from their socket roots uptore His eyes.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 126. Hence it nor storms, nor gusts, nor showers uptear.

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  fig.  1847.  C. Brontë, J. Eyre, xxvii. What good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her?

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1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, II. 61. Such wedlock even now He blindly broods, as shall uptear his kingdom.

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