uprises

Verb

uprise (third-person singular simple present uprises, present participle uprising, simple past uprose, past participle uprisen)

1. (archaic) 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
2. (archaic) 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
3. 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

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