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uprear en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ʌpˈɹɪə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English upreren, equivalent to up- + rear.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To raise something up; to rise up; to erect
   • With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, […] 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
   • a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:

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