UPRAISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upraised mean? 

• UPRAISED (adjective)
  The adjective UPRAISED has 1 sense:

1. held up in the air

  Familiarity information: UPRAISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPRAISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held up in the air

Synonyms:

lifted; upraised

Context example:

her upraised flag

Similar:

raised (located or moved above the surround or above the normal position)

 Context examples 

“Score, indeed!” cried she, standing with upraised hands in front of the panel on which Alleyne had worked the night before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment Gilchrist, with upraised hand, tried to control his writhing features.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, Agnes! Look, look, here!” —That face, so full of pity, and of grief, that rain of tears, that awful mute appeal to me, that solemn hand upraised towards Heaven!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In all that sorrow, from the moment, never to be forgotten, when she stood before me with her upraised hand, she was like a sacred presence in my lonely house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With upraised forefinger and slanting head, he stood listening.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet, in spite of all these disadvantages, there was a certain nobility in the woman’s bearing—a gallantry in the defiant chin and in the upraised head, which compelled something of respect and admiration.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fat, red-faced gleeman, the listening group, the archer with upraised finger beating in time to the music, and the huge sprawling figure of Hordle John, all thrown into red light and black shadow by the flickering fire in the centre—memory was to come often lovingly back to it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)