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upsteal

upsteal verb: to steal or creep upward.

Verb

upsteal (third-person singular simple present upsteals, present participle upstealing, simple past upstole, past participle upstolen)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To steal or creep upward.
    • […] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212
    • Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day

Forms of upsteal

third-person singular presentupsteals
present participleupstealing
pastupstole
past participleupstolen

Origin of upsteal

From up- + steal.

Questions about upsteal

What does upsteal mean?
Upsteal means to steal or creep upward.
What part of speech is upsteal?
Upsteal is a verb.
What is the past tense of upsteal?
The past tense of upsteal is upstole.

Words near upsteal in the dictionary

  1. upstats
  2. upstay
  3. upstayed
  4. upstaying
  5. upstays
  6. upsteal
  7. upstealing
  8. upsteals
  9. upstep
  10. upstepped
  11. upstepping

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