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uptear
[ uhp-tair ]
verb (used with object)
uptore, uptorn, uptearing.
- to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
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Uptear, up-tÄr′, v.t. to tear up.
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If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear, His servants rapacious the tree will uptear; For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour.
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Go, sister, meekly tell the haughty foe, Not I at Aulis with the Greeks did swear To smite the Trojans and their towers o'erthrow, Nor sought his father's ashes to uptear.
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He is weak, very old—he can scarcely uptear A young pine-tree for staff since his legs cease to bear; But here's to replace him!—I can toy with his axe; As I sit on the hill my feet swing in the flax, And my knee caps the boulders and troubles the trees.
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