soaring

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.

   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
6. (intransitive) To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.

   Synonyms:

   balloon

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