uprear

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈɹɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• parure, rear up