sunrised

Verb

sunrise (third-person singular simple present sunrises, present participle sunrising, simple past and past participle sunrised)

1. (transitive, uncommon) To phase in.
   • In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.2015, Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Routledge, →ISBN

   Antonyms:

   sunset

2. (idiomatic, intransitive, rare) To awake.
   • As I "sunrised" and breakfasted, I saw the party of men and women that had come to Horse Camp with the pack-train filing up the long slope below.1924, Claude Ewing Rusk, Tales Of A Western Mountaineer, A Record of Mountain Experiences on the Pacific Coast, page 301
3. (idiomatic, rare, transitive) To cheer up, brighten, or illuminate.
   • "That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile.1981, Hugh Zachary, To Guard The Right, page 63

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