soar

Verb

soar (third-person singular simple present soars, present participle soaring, simple past and past participle soared)

1. (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
   • When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC...
2. To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
3. To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
4. To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
   • The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
   • A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 57

   Synonyms:

   aspire

5. (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
   • Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 65
   • Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 25
6. (intransitive) To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.

   Synonyms:

   balloon

Noun

soar (plural soars)

1. The act of soaring.
   • this apparent soar of the hooded falconc. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
2. An upward flight.

Proper noun capitalized: Soar

IPA/sɔː(ɹ)/

Soar

1. A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.