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upleap

upleap verb: to leap up; spring up.

Verb

upleap (third-person singular simple present upleaps, present participle upleaping, simple past upleaped or upleapt or (archaic) uplept or (archaic) uplope, past participle upleaped or upleapt or (archaic) uplept or (archaic) uplope or (archaic) uplopen)

  1. (intransitive) To leap up; spring up.
    • [F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 106

Forms of upleap

third-person singular presentupleaps
present participleupleaping
pastupleaped
pastupleapt
past participleupleaped
past participleupleapt
past (archaic)uplept
past (archaic)uplope
past participle (archaic)uplept
past participle (archaic)uplope
past participle (archaic)uplopen

Origin of upleap

From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).

Questions about upleap

What does upleap mean?
Upleap means to leap up; spring up.
What part of speech is upleap?
Upleap is a verb.
What is the past tense of upleap?
The past tense of upleap is upleaped.

Words near upleap in the dictionary

  1. uplean
  2. upleaned
  3. upleaning
  4. upleans
  5. upleant
  6. upleap
  7. upleaped
  8. upleaping
  9. upleaps
  10. upleapt
  11. Upleatham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upleap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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