upraise
Americanverb (used with object)
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to raise up; lift or elevate.
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to raise from a depressed or dejected humor; cheer.
verb
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literary to lift up; elevate
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archaic to praise; exalt
Other Word Forms
- upraiser noun
Etymology
Origin of upraise
First recorded in 1250–1300, upraise is from the Middle English word upreisen. See up-, raise
Example Sentences
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The floor and upraise of this recess is plastered with adobe, which in several places is smooth and well made.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
But only when thine honour shall demand, Or injured right, upraise thy martial hand.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.
When a height of nine thousand feet had been reached the rugged upraise opened out into a nearly level plateau.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello
They made that upraise following the ore, and that’s why the mine was opened for the second time here.
From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas
Naturally I have let it fall to upraise you, and now I have leave it there.”
From A Woman's Will by Caliga, I. H. (Isaac Henry)
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