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Uprise

verb

(past uprose; past part. uprisen; pres. part. uprising)

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

Ascend as a sound.

Rise up as in fear. Synonyms: bristle, stand up. "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"

Rise to one's feet. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up.

Come up, of celestial bodies. Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise. "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"

Move upward. Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise. "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"

Return from the dead. Synonyms: resurrect, rise. "The dead are to uprise"

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

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"Uprise" Quotes from Famous Books

... outspread of a faint, not wholly natural, aurora over the dark northern country. And it was in an actual sunrise that the news came which finally put him on the directest road homewards. One hardly dared breathe in the rapid uprise of all-embracing light which seemed like the intellectual rising of the Fatherland, when up the straggling path to his high beech-grown summit (was one safe nowhere?) protesting over the roughness of the way, came the too familiar voices (ennui itself ...

— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater

... rate this may be asserted, that from the year of the Dublin Strike dates the uprise of Labour in Ireland. Connolly became a martyr for his principles, whilst Larkin has been hunted from one end of the world to the other because of his doctrines, undoubtedly of an extremely revolutionary character. But able men have arisen to continue ...

— Ireland Since Parnell • Daniel Desmond Sheehan

... granite peaks uprise As old and scornful as your race, And fringed with firths of lucent dyes The jewelled beach your limbs embrace. Oh bather, may those Western gems Remind ...

— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)

... the nobles of Japan, equivalent to the European chivalry. Its maxims have been orally handed down, together with a vast accumulation of traditional etiquette, the result of centuries of feudalism. Its inception is associated with the uprise of feudal institutions under Yoritomo, the first of the Shoguns, late in the 12th century, but bushido in an undeveloped form existed before then. The samurai or nobles of Japan entertained the highest respect for truth. "A bushi has no second word" was one of their ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various

... realness, either in myself or in any land or place; and all to come back strange and vague; yet with a constant knowing that there went Love about me, and a great and gentle watchfulness; so that I was eased when that the black mists of my weakness did uprise about me to swamp me; and I was made to know hope, when that unknown despairs ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

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