uptorn

English

Verb

uptorn

1. past participle of uptear
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Land that Time Forgot‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     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.

Anagrams

• Purton, torn up