Uprise

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To get up or stand up; rise.
  • verb-intransitive. To go, move, or incline upward; ascend.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise into view, especially from below the horizon.
  • verb-intransitive. To increase in pitch or volume; swell.
  • n. The act or process of rising.
  • n. An upward slope; an ascent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
  • v. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
  • v. To have an upward direction or inclination
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
  • verb-intransitive. To have an upward direction or inclination.
  • n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To rise up, as from bed or from a seat; get up; rise.
  • To ascend, as above the horizon: literally or figuratively.
  • To ascend, as a hill; slope upward. Tennyson, Vision of Sin, v.
  • To swell; well up; rise in waves.
  • To spring up; come into being or perception; be made or caused.
  • n. Uprising.
  • n. An increase in size; a swelling; a protuberance.
  • n. Rise; development; advance; augmentation, as of price or value.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move upward
  • v. come up, of celestial bodies
  • v. ascend as a sound
  • v. return from the dead
  • v. come into existence; take on form or shape
  • v. rise up as in fear
  • v. rise to one's feet
  • v. get up and out of bed
  • Verb Form
    uprises    uprising    uprose   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arise    come up    go up    rise    lift    move up    ascend    return   
    Variant
    uprisen    uprose   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rise    rising    development   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts