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upleaps

upleaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 upleaps

What is upleaps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upleaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upleap.

Words near upleaps in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upleaps (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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