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upharrow

upharrow verb: to tear up.

Verb

upharrow (third-person singular simple present upharrows, present participle upharrowing, simple past and past participle upharrowed)

  1. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To tear up.
    • To wildering height / upharrow the water! / Drive from its dreams / this slumbering sea!1891, Tristan and Isolde: English Words to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, page 2
    • His grave will be upharrowed and left open.1995, Brooks Haxton, The Sun at Night: Poems, page 27

Forms of upharrow

third-person singular presentupharrows
present participleupharrowing
past participleupharrowed
pastupharrowed

Origin of upharrow

From up- + harrow.

Questions about upharrow

What does upharrow mean?
Upharrow means to tear up.
What part of speech is upharrow?
Upharrow is a verb.
What is the past tense of upharrow?
The past tense of upharrow is upharrowed.

Words near upharrow in the dictionary

  1. uphanding
  2. uphands
  3. uphang
  4. uphanging
  5. uphangs
  6. upharrow
  7. upharrowed
  8. upharrowing
  9. upharrows
  10. uphaul
  11. uphauls

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