English Dictionary |
SOAR UP
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does soar up mean?
• SOAR UP (verb)
The verb SOAR UP has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SOAR UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rise rapidly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom
Context example:
the dollar soared against the yen
Hypernyms (to "soar up" is one way to...):
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "soar up"):
billow; wallow (rise up as if in waves)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples
Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"In death, I am born." (Native American proverb, Hopi)
"I'm up to it and to any great thing." (Arabic proverb)
"Many hands make light work." (Dutch proverb)