pa. pple. and ppl. a. (UP- 5. Cf. UPTEAR v.)
a. 1586. Sidney, Certaine Sonets, Wks. 1922, II. 303. Time haste my dying hower: Place see my grave uptorne.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, v. 192. Her Tombs wide-shatter’d, and her Dead up-torn.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 438. The gardener’s pale, the farmer’s hedge … Uptorn by strength,… he bundles up the spoil.
1818. Keats, Endym., III. 499. [She was] seated upon an uptorn forest root.
1841. Dublin Rev., May, 344. The broken window and uptorn brass.
1877. L. Morris, Epic Hades, II. 121. The humble homes uptorn To gain one poor fair face.
