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uprending

uprending is the present participle and gerund of uprend.

Meaning of uprend

Verb

uprend (third-person singular simple present uprends, present participle uprending, simple past and past participle uprent)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To tear up; to uproot.
    • For earthquake swallowing earthquake
      Uprent the Wessex tree1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

Questions about uprending

What is uprending the present participle and gerund of?
Uprending is the present participle and gerund of uprend.

Words near uprending in the dictionary

  1. upregulator
  2. upregulators
  3. upregulatory
  4. uprend
  5. uprendering
  6. uprending
  7. uprends
  8. uprent
  9. uprest
  10. uprests
  11. upride

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uprending (page history and authors); uprend (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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