Definition of "uptorn" [uptorn]

• Past participle of uptear (verb)

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• "O my son, dwelleth a black giant, seventy cubits high, who fights with trees from their roots uptorn; and when my son reached his"
• "He looked west, towards where the upper landing window had been, and was looking into the sunset, over an insane sea of waters, bristling with uptorn trees and refuse."
• "Here and there were scattered roots recently uptorn, branches broken off, huge stones reduced to powder, as if an avalanche had rushed down this flank of the mountain."