Uptear
Full definition of uptear
Verb
- (transitive, archaic or poetic) To tear up (wrench from the ground).
- 1918 , Edgar Rice Burrows , The Land that Time Forgot Chapter , I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo. It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships. The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano.