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UPRISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: uprisen    , uprose   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Example:

He uprose at night

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Sentence frame:

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Sense 2

Meaning:

Return from the dead

Example:

The dead are to uprise

Synonyms:

resurrect; rise; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Verb group:

raise; resurrect; upraise (cause to become alive again)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 3

Meaning:

Move upward

Example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Synonyms:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)

go up (be erected, built, or constructed)

rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)

bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)

uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

steam (rise as vapor)

ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 4

Meaning:

Come up, of celestial bodies

Example:

Jupiter ascends

Synonyms:

ascend; come up; rise; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 5

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Example:

The audience got up and applauded

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

take the floor (stand up to dance)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 6

Meaning:

Rise up as in fear

Example:

It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!

Synonyms:

bristle; stand up; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Sentence frame:

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Sense 7

Meaning:

Ascend as a sound

Example:

The choirs singing uprose and filled the church

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

ascend; go up (travel up)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 8

Meaning:

Come into existence; take on form or shape

Example:

An interesting phenomenon uprose

Synonyms:

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Verb group:

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

resurge (rise again)

come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)

come; follow (to be the product or result)

swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))

head (take its rise)

Sentence frame:

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