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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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
The uprise of land has been detected in various parts of the world.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Nevertheless this period of linguistic degradation witnessed the uprise of a most remarkable institution for popularising "the Art of Poesy."
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
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
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
The loud voices grow thin, the doors and walls of the school-room vanish before his eyes, and in their place uprises Rome the Great, the Urbs et Orbis and her million-voiced life.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
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
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
Now they have uprisen, and, asseverating that classical education is a pricked bubble, ask boldly for expensive apparatus and a larger tract of space in the time-table.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
You have uprisen from the ashes of the past like the Phoenix of old.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers
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
The Flock uprising, though, is the stirrings of public understanding that none of this inevitable — and we have the right to fight back.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hasina, who denies the charges, was tried in absentia after fleeing to India during an anti-government uprising in 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Toppled in August 2024 by a student-led uprising that ended her 15-year, iron-fisted rule, Hasina fled by helicopter to India as crowds stormed her palace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
“It took so long because we’re in Watts,” she said, noting that the neighborhood has faced decades of disinvestment dating back to the 1965 Watts uprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“I needn’t have learned about the 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct or the uprising of Elfric the Eager.”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Thus last week Lord Rothermere uprose to speak for Lord Mottistone's motion to appoint a Cabinet Minister to co-ordinate British defenses against attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half vexed, half amused was old Dr. Warriner when the Law and LeTourneau's family promptly uprose to challenge his bold confession.
From Time Magazine Archive
As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Flushed with the importance of the occasion, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, arch-inflationist of Congress, uprose in the Senate last week to open debate on the White House currency bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
By-and-by a yellow glare shone above the shoulder of the adjacent hill, and a great round moon uprose and sailed up the firmament as clear and bright as a pearl.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
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