uptorn

(ʌpˈtɔːn)

adj

pulled or ripped up by or as if by the roots

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He walked more hastily at first than was consistent with his strength; for a sort of guilty feeling, which sometimes torments men in their most justifiable acts, caused him to seek concealment from Malvin's eyes; but after he had trodden far upon the rustling forest leaves he crept back, impelled by a wild and painful curiosity, and, sheltered by the earthy roots of an uptorn tree, gazed earnestly at the desolate man.

Yet in the next moment Reuben's eye was caught by another change that time had effected since he last stood where he was now standing again behind the earthy roots of the uptorn tree.

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The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano.

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The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending.

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What (Dao's) skilful planter plants /Can never be uptorn...

Plato's cosmic animal vs. the Daoist cosmic plant: Religious and ideological implications

Consider the circumstances: two Lithuanian-born Polish poets living almost a century apart, uptorn from their native ground by historical cataclysms threatening extinction of the national identity.