uptorn

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A form of uptear — To tear up (wrench from the ground).

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastpast participle of uptear

    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.

    1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Land that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Purtonunport
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APA

uptorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uptorn

MLA

“uptorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uptorn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uptorn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uptorn.

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