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upspears

upspears is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 upspears

What is upspears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upspears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upspear.

Words near upspears in the dictionary

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

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