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upspear

upspear verb: to rise or point upward like spears.

Verb

upspear (third-person singular simple present upspears, present participle upspearing, simple past and past participle upspeared)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To rise or point upward like spears.
    • A hundred tents upspear from out the foliage, and countless flocks and herds are safely pasturing around them. That is Beer-sheba, on the borders of the Philistines' land […]1883, Robina Forrester Hardy, The Children of the Bible, page 11

upspear meaning in Tamil

upspear in Tamil

ஈட்டிபோல் மேல் முனைப்பாக நில

Forms of upspear

third-person singular presentupspears
present participleupspearing
past participleupspeared
pastupspeared

Origin of upspear

From up- + spear.

Questions about upspear

What does upspear mean?
Upspear means to rise or point upward like spears.
What is upspear in Tamil?
Upspear in Tamil is ஈட்டிபோல் மேல் முனைப்பாக நில. See Upspear meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upspear?
Upspear is a verb.
What is the past tense of upspear?
The past tense of upspear is upspeared.

Words near upspear in the dictionary

  1. upspeak
  2. upspeaker
  3. upspeakers
  4. upspeaking
  5. upspeaks
  6. upspear
  7. upspeared
  8. upspearing
  9. upspears
  10. upsped
  11. upspeed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upspear (page history and authors); upspear (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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