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[ verb uhp-rahyz ; noun uhp -rahyz ] SHOW IPA
/ verb ʌpˈraɪz; noun ˈʌpˌraɪz / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object), up·rose, up·ris·en, up·ris·ing. to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
to rise into view: As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.
to rise in revolt.
to come into existence or prominence: Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.
to move upward; mount up; ascend.
to come above the horizon.
to slope upward: The land uprises from the river to the hills.
to swell or grow, as a sound: A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of uprise First recorded in 1250–1300, uprise is from the Middle English word uprisen. See up-, rise
OTHER WORDS FROM uprise upriser, noun Words nearby uprise upraise, uprate, uprear, upright, upright piano, uprise , uprising, upriver, uproar, uproarious, uproot
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Example sentences from the Web for uprise The Reverend Grasty stood waiting for the first words of the hymn to uprise from below him in a mighty swing.
Those Times And These | Irvin S. Cobb
By degrees, the froth and the rainbow disappeared, and the bottom of the gulf seemed slowly to uprise .
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
The first was the downfall of young Harry Greenacre, and the other the uprise of Mrs. Lookaloft and her family.
Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
Benjamin of Tiberias, leader of a Jewish uprise in Palestine, 19, 22.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz
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British Dictionary definitions for uprise verb (ʌpˈraɪz ) -rises , -rising , -rose or -risen noun (ˈʌpˌraɪz ) another word for rise (def. 24), rise (def. 25), rise (def. 26)
Derived forms of uprise upriser , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to uprise scale, rise, ascend, increase, awake, stand, arise, climb, awaken, rise and shine, turn out, upspring, move up, roll out, spring out, get to one's feet