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uptear

uptear verb: to tear up (wrench from the ground).

Verb

uptear (third-person singular simple present uptears, present participle uptearing, simple past uptore, past participle uptorn)

  1. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To tear up (wrench from the ground).
    • 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

uptear meaning in Tamil

uptear in Tamil

கிழித்தெறி

Forms of uptear

third-person singular presentuptears
present participleuptearing
pastuptore
past participleuptorn

Origin of uptear

From up- + tear.

Questions about uptear

What does uptear mean?
Uptear means to tear up (wrench from the ground).
What is uptear in Tamil?
Uptear in Tamil is கிழித்தெறி. See Uptear meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is uptear?
Uptear is a verb.
What is the past tense of uptear?
The past tense of uptear is uptore.

Words near uptear in the dictionary

  1. uptalker
  2. uptalkers
  3. uptalking
  4. uptalks
  5. uptalky
  6. uptear
  7. uptearing
  8. uptears
  9. uptempo
  10. uptempos
  11. uptend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uptear (page history and authors); uptear (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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