uprise

[ verb uhp-rahyz; noun uhp-rahyz ]
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verb (used without object),up·rose, up·ris·en, up·ris·ing.
  1. to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.

  2. to rise into view: As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.

  1. to rise in revolt.

  2. to come into existence or prominence: Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.

  3. to move upward; mount up; ascend.

  4. to come above the horizon.

  5. to slope upward: The land uprises from the river to the hills.

  6. to swell or grow, as a sound: A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.

noun
  1. an act of rising up.

Origin of uprise

1
First recorded in 1250–1300, uprise is from the Middle English word uprisen.See up-, rise

Other words from uprise

  • upriser, noun

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How to use uprise in a sentence

  • So when a sorcerer casts spiced herbs upon the flame, and scented vapour uprises, and in the vapour images appear.

    If Winter Comes | A.S.M. Hutchinson
  • Springing from the deepest and best that is implanted in man, it fertilizes the soil from which it uprises.

    For Every Music Lover | Aubertine Woodward Moore
  • Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.

    Famous European Artists | Sarah K. Bolton

British Dictionary definitions for uprise

uprise

verb(ʌpˈraɪz) -rises, -rising, -rose or -risen
  1. (tr) to rise up

noun(ˈʌpˌraɪz)

Derived forms of uprise

  • upriser, noun

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