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rears up

vb. (en-third-person singularrear up)

Usage examples of "rears up".

Suddenly, the waters part and the creature rears up to reveal its face: flat red eyes gleaming like banked fires, noseless but for dark slits over a nodelike swelling, and a mouth grinning with rows of glittering sharp teeth.

As the doctor waits, a silence rears up from out of the nurse and looms over everybody, daring anybody to challenge it.

For it is certain that nothing can be more galling to the pride of the devil, which he always rears up against God (as it is said: The pride of them that hate Thee increases ever), than that God should convert his evil machinations to His own glory.

Tom rears up to blast a projectile five hundred miles to target Paris.