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upstares

upstares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upstare.

Meaning of upstare

Verb

upstare (third-person singular simple present upstares, present participle upstaring, simple past and past participle upstared)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
    • […]With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair—[…]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Questions about upstares

What is upstares the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upstares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upstare.

Words near upstares in the dictionary

  1. upstandingly
  2. upstandingness
  3. upstands
  4. upstare
  5. upstared
  6. upstares
  7. upstaring
  8. upstart
  9. upstarted
  10. upstarting
  11. upstartish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upstares (page history and authors); upstare (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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