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Raise or elevate, old-style
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uprear
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Word definitions for uprear in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uprear \Up*rear"\, v. t. To raise; to erect. --Byron.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to raise something up; to rise up; to erect
Usage examples of uprear.
To climb the huge boulders the animals were compelled to uprear and struggle blindly through the tangled mass of vegetation.
Has glistened with the spoils of nights like those, Home turning as a conqueror turns home, What time green dawn down every street uprears Arches of triumph!
And in that same moment of turning he saw the street brighten like day and a great ribbon of lightning split the tall elm opposite and fork into several streams which streaked across the street toward the window and the stony form upreared against it.
But on his retina was burned the incandescent track of the lightning, whose multiple streams, racing toward the upreared stony form, had converged upon it as if drawn together by a seven-fold knot.
What appeared to be a cylinder with pointed ends was partly upreared in a field of broken ice directly below.
Thus, then, the bulk of the sphinx which upreared its mystic form upon this outer edge of the southern lands might be calculated by thousands of cubic yards.
Dolly, upreared, with distended nostrils and wild eyes, was pawing the air madly with her fore legs.
One hind leg of the mare seemed to collapse, and for a moment the whole quivering body, upreared and perpendicular, swayed back and forth, and there was uncertainty as to whether it would fall forward or backward.
Now swiftly the Thing upreared, standing like a scaled tower a hundred feet above the rift, its eyes scanning that movement I had seen along the course of its lair.
Cold-blooded, scheming, hungry, singing psalms, Devour our substance, wreck our banks and drain Our little hoards for hazards on the price Of wheat or pork, or yet to cower beneath The shadow of a spire upreared to curb A breed of lackeys and to serve the bank Coadjutor in greed, that is the question.
The runner passed them a dozen feet away, crossed the wet sand, never parsing, till the froth wash was to his knees while above him, ten feet at least, upreared a was of overtopping water.
Jewel holding the horse upreared, its head wrenched around, hammering its head with his fist.
Like a flash it threw its body into a coil and upreared its head to strike.
In the center of the room, a great green dragon was upreared on its hind legs.
On its flat roof the forms of a dozen or more glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.