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upstole

upstole is the simple past of upsteal.

Meaning of upsteal

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

Questions about upstole

What is upstole the simple past of?
Upstole is the simple past of upsteal.

Words near upstole in the dictionary

  1. upstir
  2. upstirred
  3. upstirring
  4. upstirrings
  5. upstirs
  6. upstole
  7. upstolen
  8. Upstone
  9. upstood
  10. upstrain
  11. upstrained

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upstole (page history and authors); upsteal (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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