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uphoist

uphoist verb: to hoist up.

Verb

uphoist (third-person singular simple present uphoists, present participle uphoisting, simple past and past participle uphoisted)

  1. (archaic) To hoist up.

Forms of uphoist

third-person singular presentuphoists
present participleuphoisting
past participleuphoisted
pastuphoisted

Origin of uphoist

From up- + hoist.

Questions about uphoist

What does uphoist mean?
Uphoist means to hoist up.
What part of speech is uphoist?
Uphoist is a verb.
What is the past tense of uphoist?
The past tense of uphoist is uphoisted.

Words near uphoist in the dictionary

  1. uphoarded
  2. uphoarding
  3. uphoards
  4. Uphoff
  5. Uphoffs
  6. uphoist
  7. uphoisted
  8. uphoisting
  9. uphoists
  10. uphold
  11. upholdable

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