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uprose

vb. (en-past of: uprise)

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uprose

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uprise
  1. v. come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, spring up, grow]

  2. ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"

  3. rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, stand up]

  4. rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, get up, stand up] [ant: sit down, lie down]

  5. come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, ascend] [ant: set]

  6. move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up] [ant: descend]

  7. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise]

  8. get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, rise] [ant: go to bed, go to bed]

  9. [also: uprose, uprisen]

Usage examples of "uprose".

II Young Hodge the Drummer never knew - Fresh from his Wessex home - The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose to nightly view Strange stars amid the gloam.

Tyndareus uprose, and lifted their hands to the immortals praying for each boon: but dejection held the rest of the Minyan heroes.

IX Uprose a fairer nest for weary feet, Like some gold flower nightly inward curled, Where gentle maidens fled a roaring world, Or played with it, and had their white retreat.

XVI Uprose the blade in green, the leaf in red, The tree of water and the tree of wood: And soon among the branches overhead Gave beauty juicy issue sweet for food.

And puzzled by that sudden inaccessibility, Nick ran back to the stream where the giggling and shouts again uprose at once.

Meantime, the jolly blaze uprose and fell, flashing and gleaming on the little Haymaker at the top of the Dutch clock, until one might have thought he stood stock still before the Moorish Palace, and nothing was in motion but the flame.

When he saw the green groves that stand out from the waves, and the temple before him uprose, What he thought Freyja knows, and the poet knows too, and the lover, he knows, ah!