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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upraised
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She held a torch in her upraised hand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dark, thin figure leaped out, stick upraised, aiming at Claudel's head.
▪ A new spider had woven from her shoulder to her upraised arm, a film-set touch that was too apposite.
▪ It was a photo of a robed woman with a sharp star for a halo and a torch in her upraised hand.
▪ Many old Ally Pally hands nevertheless prefer the woman with upraised hands who formed the spectacular fountain in the old Palm Court.
▪ Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm, he limped back to the corner and peered round.
▪ There was a shadow on the shower curtain, a human-shape holding something in an upraised arm.
▪ Willie leaned his head back on his upraised hands.
▪ Young Andrew's belly shows between upraised jumper and trousers.
Wiktionary
upraised

  1. (context nonstandard or archaic English) lift, raise, held high. v

  2. (en-past of: upraise)

WordNet
upraised

adj. held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag" [syn: lifted]

Usage examples of "upraised".

His upraised hands indicated his exultation in discovering an answer to the vital question of how to keep the queens where they were.

The man laughed viciously and kicked her in the side again and brought his foot down against her upraised left arm.

He parried die blow from the creatures upraised mace, then made a neat slice across the beast's midsection.

She took off with a squeal of rage, knocking Landreau aside and rearing away from the upraised clubs of the space marines.

Somewhere in the clos­est ranks behind Dagna's elites, half a dozen dwarven priests, wearing their smithy apron vestments and holding mithril warhammer holy symbols tight in upraised fists, sighted their targets, two to the side, two in front, and two above.

He held out his upraised hand, denying the gift, and Regis, after one more unsuccessful try, shrugged his little shoulders, and put the mask away.

Drizzt let the tip get within a few inches of his vulnerable abdomen before the blade in his left hand slashed across, deflecting the sword out wide, crossing under his upraised arm as his other scimitar worked against the female's second sword.

Looking quite bored, it sat in a chair it had carved from one of the mushrooms, its grotesque head resting on the upraised palm of one hand.

The drow went right under Morik's upraised arm, turning as he moved, then running right behind the rogue, twisting that arm and maneuvering out of the reach of the other stabbing dagger.

A blinding, concussive flash halted Pikel's charge, and left the stunned dwarf standing there, his beard and hair smoking on the right side, his right arm still upraised, but holding only a blackened stump instead of an enchanted cudgel.

It stood back, hands upraised and waving frantically, having dropped its weapon to the ground at its feet.

Shingles then pointed at the upraised bottle and wagged his finger when the attacker saw that there were still some traces of beer inside.

He knew she'd seen his upraised hand, she made a thumbs-up gesture and crouched to run, her hand along the vine that would take her over the cliff and into sanctuary.

Then for good measure he placed one upraised finger against his suckerlike mouth and turned to the com.

Even as the pair came at him with upraised clubs or iron bars or whatever they had been using to smash the battery tanks, he wasn't afraid: just purely and simply furious.