uptorn, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
(up- 5. Cf. up-tear 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. |