Definitions for uprise

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uprise up·rise

Spelling: [verb uhp-rahyz; noun uhp-rahyz]

IPA: /verb ʌpˈraɪz; noun ˈʌpˌraɪz/

Uprise is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in uprise (eiprsu).

Definitions for uprise

noun

1. an act of rising up.

verb (used without object)

1. to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
2. to rise into view:
3. to rise in revolt.
4. to come into existence or prominence:
5. to move upward; mount up; ascend.
6. to come above the horizon.
7. to slope upward:
8. to swell or grow, as a sound:

Origin of uprise

First recorded in 1250-1300, uprise is from the Middle English word uprisen. See up-, rise

Examples for uprise

The Reverend Grasty stood waiting for the first words of the hymn to uprise from below him in a mighty swing.

The uprise of land has been detected in various parts of the world.

Never, my liege, if you permit, will I uprise from hence till you have granted me the boon I ask.

Horologes, to chime the hours, and even the quarters, uprise from tables of ebony-and-mother-of-pearl.

Dolly followed slowly: as she ascended, the lights seemed to uprise, the columns to stand out more boldly.

Nor was the uprise of Protestantism in Scotland the only result of her policy in giving fire and strength to the new religion.

By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared, and the bottom of the gulf seemed slowly to uprise.

Benjamin of Tiberias, leader of a Jewish uprise in Palestine, 19, 22.

The uprise of an idea, perception of a principle, makes many one and inseparable.

The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise.