upharrow

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

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