uprear

verb

uprear

verb

/ʌpˈɹɪə(ɹ)/

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

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Ambitransitive To raise something up; to rise up; to erect

  • With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, […]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):
  • a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head.1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:

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