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- verb Simple past of
uptear .
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Examples
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'I could bend her with my finger and thumb; and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her?
The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912
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'I could bend her with my finger and thumb; and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her?
The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904
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Just is the wave which uptore us; 'tis Nature's own law which condemns us;
Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847
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663: Betook them, and the neighbouring Hills uptore;
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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(And he shook me with the force of his hold.) "I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her?
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