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Uprise   /ˈəpraɪz/   Listen
Uprise

verb
(past uprose; past part. uprisen; pres. part. uprising)
1.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
2.
Ascend as a sound.
3.
Rise up as in fear.  Synonyms: bristle, stand up.  "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"
4.
Rise to one's feet.  Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up.
5.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
6.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
7.
Return from the dead.  Synonyms: resurrect, rise.  "The dead are to uprise"
8.
Get up and out of bed.  Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out.  "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"






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"Uprise" Quotes from Famous Books



... might have had a chance of elegant Latinity, in the absence of poetry and sense; and since, secondly, the deficiencies of the laureate poems would have been disguised, from the general eye at least, under the veil of an unknown tongue. It is curious to notice about this period the uprise of two didactic poets, both writing on alchymy, the chemistry of that day, and neither displaying a spark of genius. These are John Norton and George Ripley, both renowned for learning and knowledge of ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... explorer of the spiritual immensities,—a seer painting his discoveries in masses and with any color that may lie at hand—cosmic, religious, human, even sensuous; a recorder, freely describing the inevitable struggle in the soul's uprise—perceiving from this inward source alone, that every "ultimate fact is only the first of a new series"; a discoverer, whose heart knows, with Voltaire, "that man seriously reflects when left alone," and would then discover, if he can, that "wondrous chain which links the heavens with earth—the ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... lime-secreting organisms flourish and their remains accumulate in beds of limestone. When long-weathered lands mantled with deep, well-oxidized waste are uplifted by a gradual movement of the earth's crust, and the mantle is rapidly stripped off by the revived streams, the uprise is recorded in wide deposits of red and yellow clays and sands upon ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... the spectrum fades, and the sky becomes suffused with yellow white light, and in a moment the fiery scintillations of the sun begin to break across the Maryland hills. Then before long the mists and vapors uprise like the breath of a giant army, and for an hour or two, one is reminded of a November morning in England. But by mid-forenoon the only trace of the obscurity that remains is a slight haze, and the day is indeed a summons and a challenge to come forth. ...
— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

... mystic ages, have we found the earliest link of the long chain? Not so. What if the legend of the change of climate be the dim recollection of an enormous physical fact? What if it, and the gradual depopulation of the whole north of Asia be owing, as geologists now suspect, to the slow and age-long uprise of the whole of Siberia, thrusting the warm Arctic sea further and further to the northward, and placing between it and the Highlands of Thibet an ever-increasing breadth of icy land, destroying animals, ...
— Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 • Charles Kingsley


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