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upsurge

upsurge noun: a sudden strong rise or flow.

Noun

upsurge (plural upsurges)

  1. A sudden strong rise or flow.
    • Our South Wales correspondent expects the current upsurge of coal traffic in South Wales to swell BR tonnage in the area by 20 per cent this year compared with 1963 carryings.1964 March, “News and Comment: More block trains in South Wales”, in Modern Railways, page 152

Verb

upsurge (third-person singular simple present upsurges, present participle upsurging, simple past and past participle upsurged)

  1. (intransitive) to surge up, or to become stronger or greater

upsurge meaning in Tamil and Kannada

upsurge in Tamil

பொங்கெழுச்சி, எழுச்சி

upsurge in Kannada

ಮೇಲೇರಿಕೆ, ಅಲೆಗಳ ಉಬ್ಬರ, ಒತ್ತಡ, ಮೇಲೊತ್ತಡ, ವಿದ್ಯುಚ್ಛಕ್ತಿಯು ಅಧಿಕವಾಗುವುದು, ದಂಗೆ

Examples of upsurge in a sentence

  • Yes," Wang said enthusiastically, "a new upsurge in art is taking form."
  • Speakers broke into song and verse as they rapturized the revolutionary upsurge in Paris and the start of "freedom's glorious reign."
  • In the late nineteenth century, there was a huge upsurge of interest in natural history collections by scientists and ordinary citizens.

All 11 example sentences with upsurge

Forms of upsurge

Noun
pluralupsurges
Verb
third-person singular presentupsurges
present participleupsurging
past participleupsurged
pastupsurged

Origin of upsurge

From up- + surge.

Questions about upsurge

What does upsurge mean?
Upsurge means a sudden strong rise or flow.
What is upsurge in Tamil?
Upsurge in Tamil is பொங்கெழுச்சி, எழுச்சி. See Upsurge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upsurge?
Upsurge can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of upsurge?
The plural of upsurge is upsurges.

Words near upsurge in the dictionary

  1. upstyles
  2. upsuck
  3. upsucked
  4. upsucking
  5. upsucks
  6. upsurge
  7. upsurged
  8. upsurgence
  9. upsurgences
  10. upsurges
  11. upsurging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upsurge (page history and authors); upsurge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upsurge (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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