uprise
Americanverb (used without object)
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to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
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to rise into view.
As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.
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to rise in revolt.
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to come into existence or prominence.
Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.
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to move upward; mount up; ascend.
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to come above the horizon.
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to slope upward.
The land uprises from the river to the hills.
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to swell or grow, as a sound.
A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.
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Etymology
Origin of uprise
First recorded in 1250–1300, uprise is from the Middle English word uprisen. See up-, rise
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“Then another horrible incident occurs and the faculty uprise in such a quick manner, like a wildfire,” Tierney said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2018
It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2018
"Versace's team knows how to do the look," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director at Bloomingdale's, pointing out that sales of Versace merchandise at his company's stores have been "all on the uprise."
From Time Magazine Archive
Formed along lines of continental displacement in the crust, they have again and again given relief from the strain of compression by fresh crumpling, fracture and uprise.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
He cites in his Geography a number of examples of widespread as well as local sinkings of land, and alludes also to the uprise of the sea-bottom.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Phoenix-like, he uprises with it from that chaos of arms and legs.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
Then Spring with one warm cloudy finger breaks The frost and the heart's airless black soil shakes; Love grown a man uprises, serious, bright With mind remembering now things dark and light.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
A lofty peak uprises there Ten leagues in height and one league square Saumanas, wrought of glistering gold, Ne'er to be loosened from its hold.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Then from the water-lilies slow uprises The still vast face of all the life I know, Changed now, and full of wonders and surprises, With fire in eyes that once were glazed with snow.
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
O love, stand beside me; the sun is uprisen On the first day of London; and shame hath been here.
From The Pilgrims of Hope by William Morris
But who is he, uprisen, with eye so keen, In garb of shining plush of grassy green— Dogs climbing round him, eager for the start, With ceaseless tail, and doubly beating heart?
From May Day with the Muses by Robert Bloomfield
He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that "a man had uprisen in Israel."
From The Grand Old Man by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook
Another star arisen; another flag unfurled; Another name inscribed among the nations of the world; Another mighty struggle 'gainst a tyrant's fell decree, And again a burdened people have uprisen, and are free.
From War Poetry of the South by Various
For lo, the world's great Shepherd now is born A blessed babe, an infant full of power: After long night uprisen is the morn, Renowning Bethl'em in the Saviour.
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
But even “A Different World” hit its limits when it plunged the audience inside the Black folks’ shock and despair after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
After an antiroyal uprising, Condé ended up in exile, where he supported himself by writing for stamp magazines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
According to Abdel Nasser Elyessa, a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the International Academy for Counter-Terrorism, this was a simple "uprising" within the army, without outside influence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
A slow push was under way to reemphasize the rehabilitative possibilities of prison in New York State when, on September 9, 1971, the Attica prison uprising began.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
From Time Magazine Archive
When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then uprose a many-toned wild hymn in Choral swell from Ogra's dark ravine, And Moguly's Phantom Women Mourned the Geraldine!
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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