uprise

American  

[uhp-rahyz, uhp-rahyz] / ʌpˈraɪz, ˈʌpˌraɪz /

verb (used without object)

uprose, uprisen, uprising

1. to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.

2. to rise into view.

   As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.

3. to rise in revolt.

4. to come into existence or prominence.

   Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.

5. to move upward; mount up; ascend.

6. to come above the horizon.

7. to slope upward.

   The land uprises from the river to the hills.

8. to swell or grow, as a sound.

   A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.

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noun

1. an act of rising up.

uprise British  

verb

1. (tr) to rise up

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noun

1. another word for rise rise rise

Other Word Forms

• upriser noun

Etymology

Origin of uprise

First recorded in 1250–1300, uprise is from the Middle English word uprisen. See up-, rise

Example Sentences

“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

Coil writhed in coil, the roughening scales uprise, The crest points up, the hissing tongue defies.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The islands of Lipari are formed of beds of tuff, penetrated by numerous dykes of lava, from which uprise two or three craters, formed of pumice and obsidian passing into trachyte.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward