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upleaping

upleaping is the present participle and gerund of upleap.

Meaning of upleap

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

Questions about upleaping

What is upleaping the present participle and gerund of?
Upleaping is the present participle and gerund of upleap.

Words near upleaping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upleaping (page history and authors); 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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