uptornadj.
(up- prefix 3b. Cf. uptear v.)
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > torn or pulled out or up
uppulledc1440
uptorna1586
revolteda1668
ripped1830
torn-up1845
updrawn1901
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Wks. (1922) II. 303 Time haste my dying hower: Place see my grave uptorne.
1729 R. Savage Wanderer v. 192 Her Tombs wide-shatter'd, and her Dead up-torn.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 438 The gardener's pale, the farmer's hedge..Uptorn by strength,..he bundles up the spoil.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 129 [She was] seated upon an uptorn forest root.
1841 Dublin Rev. May 344 The broken window and uptorn brass.
1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 43 The humble homes uptorn To gain one poor fair face.
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