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upshoot

/ʌpˈʃuːt/

upshoot verb: to shoot upward.

Verb

upshoot (third-person singular simple present upshoots, present participle upshooting, simple past and past participle upshot)

  1. (intransitive) To shoot upward.
    • trees upshooting high1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151

Noun

IPA/ˈʌpʃuːt/

upshoot (plural upshoots)

  1. An involuntary upward movement of the eye

Forms of upshoot

Verb
third-person singular presentupshoots
present participleupshooting
past participleupshot
pastupshot
Noun
pluralupshoots

Origin of upshoot

From up- + shoot.

Questions about upshoot

What does upshoot mean?
Upshoot means to shoot upward.
What part of speech is upshoot?
Upshoot can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce upshoot?
Upshoot is pronounced /ʌpˈʃuːt/.
What is the past tense of upshoot?
The past tense of upshoot is upshot.

Words near upshoot in the dictionary

  1. upshifting
  2. upshifts
  3. Upshire
  4. upshock
  5. upshocks
  6. upshoot
  7. upshooting
  8. upshoots
  9. upshore
  10. upshorts
  11. upshot

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