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uptearing

uptearing is the present participle and gerund of uptear.

Meaning of uptear

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

Questions about uptearing

What is uptearing the present participle and gerund of?
Uptearing is the present participle and gerund of uptear.

Words near uptearing in the dictionary

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

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