uprear

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English upreren, equivalent to up- +‎ rear.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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uprear (third-person singular simple present uprears, present participle uprearing, simple past and past participle upreared) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. To raise something up; to rise up; to erect
    • 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. [], London: [] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] [], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, []
    • 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:
      a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head.

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