UPRISE (uprisen, uprose)

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Irregular inflected forms: uprisen    , uprose   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does uprise mean? 

• UPRISE (verb)
  The verb UPRISE has 8 senses:

1. come into existence; take on form or shape

2. ascend as a sound

3. rise up as in fear

4. rise to one's feet

5. come up, of celestial bodies

6. move upward

7. return from the dead

8. get up and out of bed

  Familiarity information: UPRISE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPRISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they uprise    ... he / she / it uprises   
Past simple: uprose   
Past participle: uprisen   
-ing form: uprising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into existence; take on form or shape

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise

Context example:

An interesting phenomenon uprose

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Verb group:

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

resurge (rise again)

come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)

come; follow (to be the product or result)

swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))

head (take its rise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ascend as a sound

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The choirs singing uprose and filled the church

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

ascend; go up (travel up)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Rise up as in fear

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bristle; stand up; uprise

Context example:

It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise

Context example:

The audience got up and applauded

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

take the floor (stand up to dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Come up, of celestial bodies

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ascend; come up; rise; uprise

Context example:

Jupiter ascends

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Move upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise

Context example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uprise"):

scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)

go up (be erected, built, or constructed)

rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)

bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)

uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

steam (rise as vapor)

ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Return from the dead

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

resurrect; rise; uprise

Context example:

The dead are to uprise

Hypernyms (to "uprise" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Verb group:

raise; resurrect; upraise (cause to become alive again)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Context example:

He uprose at night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

And near to him he heard the scuffle of a mighty Slavonian hunter, loath to die, and, half uprisen, borne back and down by the thirsty spears.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mealy Potatoes uprose once, and rebelled against my being so distinguished; but Mick Walker settled him in no time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)