uptear

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   literary: to tear up or wrench violently from the ground or from a fixed position

   The gale threatened to uptear the shallow-rooted tree from the bank.

Formed from up- + tear. The prefix adds the sense of removal from a fixed place, especially wrenching something out of the ground; its historical past and participle forms include uptore and uptorn.

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