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upsoar

/ʌpˈsɔː(ɹ)/

upsoar verb: to soar upward.

Verb

upsoar (third-person singular simple present upsoars, present participle upsoaring, simple past and past participle upsoared)

  1. (archaic, literary) To soar upward.
    • on the right up-soar'd in air / The hawk, Apollo's swift-wing'd messenger1725–1726, Homer, “Book 15”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of upsoar

third-person singular presentupsoars
present participleupsoaring
past participleupsoared
pastupsoared

Origin of upsoar

From up- + soar.

Questions about upsoar

What does upsoar mean?
Upsoar means to soar upward.
What part of speech is upsoar?
Upsoar is a verb.
How do you pronounce upsoar?
Upsoar is pronounced /ʌpˈsɔː(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of upsoar?
The past tense of upsoar is upsoared.

Words near upsoar in the dictionary

  1. upsmanship
  2. upsnatch
  3. upsnatched
  4. upsnatches
  5. upsnatching
  6. upsoar
  7. upsoared
  8. upsoaring
  9. upsoars
  10. upsold
  11. upsolve

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