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upleaned

upleaned is the simple past and past participle of uplean.

Meaning of uplean

Verb

uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned)

  1. (ambitransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
    • The western sky is wallen
      With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge
      Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen,
      And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean
      Their silver cones upon the crimson verge
      Of the high zenith,1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
    • With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, / Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 322

Questions about upleaned

What is upleaned the simple past and past participle of?
Upleaned is the simple past and past participle of uplean.

Words near upleaned in the dictionary

  1. uplays
  2. uplead
  3. upleading
  4. upleads
  5. uplean
  6. upleaned
  7. upleaning
  8. upleans
  9. upleant
  10. upleap
  11. upleaped

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