uprear
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English upreren, equivalent to up- + rear.
Verb[edit]
uprear (third-person singular simple present uprears, present participle uprearing, simple past and past participle upreared) (transitive, intransitive)
- To raise something up; to rise up; to erect
- John Marston
- 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.
- John Marston