uprise
verb (used without object)
to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
uprises
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pluralof uprise.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Blanche Willis Howard
Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
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
