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
In wreaths of smoke, blown waywardwise, Faces of olden days uprise, And in his dreamers revery They haunt the smoker's brain, and he Breathes for the past regretful sighs.
From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various
An' whin de king uprise, all de congergation crowd round li'l' black Mose, an' dey am about leben millium an' a few lift over.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
We'll have them!” and the winds and waves in hoarse chorus respond, “They'll have them—have them—have them!” and again uprises the Screw and shakes himself and the trembling steamer.
From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis
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 O'Shea, John Augustus
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 Edwards, George Wharton
Then slowly and solemnly over the distant hills uprises the moon.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
After a time uprises the everlasting sun; and the mother starts up at the summons of the heavenly dawn, with a resurrection of her ancient bloom.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
His son, Lord Lincoln, had heard Gladstone’s speech against the Reform Bill delivered in the Oxford Union, and had written home that “a man had uprisen in Israel.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 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 Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
He longed for the arrival of his father—for the strong, calm counsel of the one man in England fitted to cope with the Hell Thing which had uprisen in their midst.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax
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 Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)
The whole town had uprisen as one man and demanded a dress-suit.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
He also cautions against romanticising it as a Gen Z uprising.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
During her time in Latin America, she covered the suicide of former president of Peru, Alan Garcia; a World Cup tournament in Lima's prisons; and the 2018 violent uprising against President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Casting Luddites as anti-technology has mired a historical labor uprising as a destructive tantrum thrown by fearful, hidebound cranks.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
When plans by PG&E to build a nuclear power plant at heavenly Bodega Head triggered an uprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
My first glimpse of an uprising in District 8.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose.
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
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
Where the snow's warm blanket had lately lain uprose millions and millions of tiny spears; wheat which had been folded safely by nature's cover against the blighting cold.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
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