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    uprear
    /ʌpˈrɪə/

    verb

    • 1. raise up: literary "one turret especially high in air uprear'd its tall gaunt form"

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  2. 1. : to lift up. 2. : erect. intransitive verb. : rise. Synonyms. arise. ascend. aspire. climb. lift. mount. rise. soar. thrust. uprise. upthrust. upturn. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.

  3. 1. to raise up; lift. The horse upreared its head and whinnied. 2. to build; erect. to uprear a monument in stone. 3.

  4. verb (used with object) to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied. to build; erect: to uprear a monument in stone. to elevate the dignity of; exalt: God upreared Abraham by making him the father of many nations. to bring up; rear: to uprear children in a good environment.

  5. Define uprear. uprear synonyms, uprear pronunciation, uprear translation, English dictionary definition of uprear. v. up·reared , up·rear·ing , up·rears v. tr. To raise or lift up. v. intr. To rise up: The stallion upreared on its hind legs.

  6. To lift up. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To rise up. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To erect; build. Webster's New World. To elevate in dignity; exalt.

  7. Synonyms for UPREAR: rise, climb, ascend, soar, lift, mount, thrust, slope; Antonyms of UPREAR: fall (off), descend, decline, drop, plunge, dip, slide, sink.

  8. uprear typically occurs about 0.02 times per million words in modern written English. uprear is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English.

  9. uprear (third-person singular simple present uprears, present participle uprearing, simple past and past participle upreared) ( transitive, intransitive) To raise something up; to rise up; to erect.

  10. up•rear (up rēr′ ), v.t. to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied. to build; erect: to uprear a monument in stone. to elevate the dignity of; exalt: God upreared Abraham by making him the father of many nations. to bring up; rear: to uprear children in a good environment.

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