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upbrings

upbrings is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upbring.

Meaning of upbring

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

Questions about upbrings

What is upbrings the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upbrings is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upbring.

Words near upbrings in the dictionary

  1. upbrightens
  2. upbrim
  3. upbring
  4. upbringing
  5. upbringings
  6. upbrings
  7. upbristling
  8. upbroke
  9. upbroken
  10. upbrought
  11. upbubble

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