uprise
uprise verb: to rise; to get up.
Verb
uprise (third-person singular simple present uprises, present participle uprising, simple past uprose, past participle uprisen)
- To rise; to get up.
- The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
- With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- To have an upward direction or inclination.
- The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, stanza V, page 317
- To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
- They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.1998, William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace, page 92
Noun
uprise (plural uprises)
- The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
- I told her of my sufferings and my madness,
And how, awakened from that dreamy mood
By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness
Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
- I told her of my sufferings and my madness,
Forms of uprise
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | uprises |
| present participle | uprising |
| past | uprose |
| past participle | uprisen |
| Noun | |
| plural | uprises |
Origin of uprise
From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- + rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”).
Words formed from uprise
Questions about uprise
- What does uprise mean?
- Uprise means to rise; to get up.
- What part of speech is uprise?
- Uprise can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of uprise?
- The past tense of uprise is uprose.
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