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
Practice is for Irish Members to put question; Prince Arthur reads answer from manuscript supplied from Irish Office; then uprise in succession half-a-dozen other Irish Members, each asking fresh question.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 by Various
Horologes, to chime the hours, and even the quarters, uprise from tables of ebony-and-mother-of-pearl.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various
First it seems to be drawn in coils on the ground like a cable, then uprises as if it were a little mast, then that sinks, and the coils move along again.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Proudly uprises in the middle of the square the tall pillar—an immense trophy covered with plates of bronze from the monster crucible in which the captured cannon of the Austrians were melted down.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
Jonah, jangling, uprises, and makes himself a bower, of hay and ever-fern, to shield him from the sun.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
From the center of the building uprises an enormous mass, three, four, five stories high, as high as the cathedral, perhaps higher.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards
Springing from the deepest and best that is implanted in man, it fertilizes the soil from which it uprises.
From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore
For here was instantly recognized the challenge of a radical spirit uprisen in full and ruthless rebellion against each and every time-hallowed usage and tradition.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
There sitting from the deeps uprisen, he mourn'd20 The vanquished Grecians, and resentment fierce Conceived and wrath against all-ruling Jove.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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
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
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
Many files are believed to have been destroyed during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, or hidden during the months-long peaceful transition to democracy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
He visited Independence Park in Georgetown to remember the Demerera Slave Rebellion of 1823, which saw an uprising by thousands of enslaved people.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Hilton, 57, was born in London to parents who fled conflict in their native Hungary during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet-controlled communist government and later anglicized their surname, Hircsák, to Hilton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
I had been following the Attica Prison uprising.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Just as the sun was sinking red towards the horizon uprose the moon in the east, round and full, and in appearance precisely like the setting sun.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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