uprear

American  

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /

verb (used with object)

1. to raise up; lift.

   The horse upreared its head and whinnied.

2. to build; erect.

   to uprear a monument in stone.

3. to elevate the dignity of; exalt.

   God upreared Abraham by making him the father of many nations.

4. to bring up; rear.

   to uprear children in a good environment.

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verb (used without object)

1. to rise.

uprear British  

/ ʌpˈrɪə /

verb

1. (tr) to lift up; raise

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Etymology

Origin of uprear

First recorded in 1250–1300, uprear is from the Middle English word upreren. See up-, rear ²

Example Sentences

Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.

From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil

The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.

From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.

The bluffs uprear and grimly peer far over Dawson town; They see its lights a blaze o' nights and harshly they look down; They mock the plan and plot of man with grim, ironic frown.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.

It is odd how individuality will uprear itself before its own consciousness, in the most adverse circumstances.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins