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upspearing

upspearing is the present participle and gerund of upspear.

Meaning of upspear

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

Questions about upspearing

What is upspearing the present participle and gerund of?
Upspearing is the present participle and gerund of upspear.

Words near upspearing in the dictionary

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

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