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   soar

   /sɔː/

   verb

   • 1. fly or rise high in the air: "the bird spread its wings and soared into the air" Similar fly upwingwing its waytake offtake flighttake to the airascendclimbrisemountOpposite plummet
   • ▪ maintain height in the air without flapping wings or using engine power: "the gulls soared on the summery winds" Similar glideplanefloatdriftwheelhanghover
   • ▪ increase rapidly above the usual level: "the cost of living continued to soar" Similar increase rapidlyshoot uprise rapidlyescalatespiral upwardsinformal:go through the ceilinggo through the roofskyrocket

   Word Origin late Middle English: shortening of Old French essorer, based on Latin ex- ‘out of’ + aura ‘breeze’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. soarer noun

   Scrabble Points: 4

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