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upbring

upbring verb: to bring up.

Verb

upbring (third-person singular simple present upbrings, present participle upbringing, simple past and past participle upbrought)

  1. (obsolete) To bring up.
    • From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of upbring

third-person singular presentupbrings
present participleupbringing
past participleupbrought
pastupbrought

Origin of upbring

From Middle English upbringen, equivalent to up- + bring. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apbrange, West Frisian opbringe, Dutch opbrengen, German Low German upbrengen, German aufbringen, Danish opbringe, Swedish uppbringa.

Words formed from upbring

Questions about upbring

What does upbring mean?
Upbring means to bring up.
What part of speech is upbring?
Upbring is a verb.
What is the past tense of upbring?
The past tense of upbring is upbrought.

Words near upbring in the dictionary

  1. upbrighten
  2. upbrightened
  3. upbrightening
  4. upbrightens
  5. upbrim
  6. upbring
  7. upbringing
  8. upbringings
  9. upbrings
  10. upbristling
  11. upbroke

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