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

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Example Sentences

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uprear

Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.

From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

Would that thegn and coerl were filled with thy spirit, and the Dane would no longer uprear his raven standard in the land.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

Here falls a cold rill drop by drop, and green grass-blades uprear Their heads, and fallen leaves are thick, and locusts prattle here.

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

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