'Uprise' definitions:
Definition of 'uprise'
From: WordNet
verb
Come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow]
verb
Ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"
verb
Rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, uprise, stand up]
verb
Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down]
verb
Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set]
verb
Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down]
verb
verb
Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]
Definition of 'Uprise'
From: GCIDE
- Uprise \Up*rise"\ ([u^]p*r[imac]z"), v. i.
- 1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- Uprose the virgin with the morning light. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have an upward direction or inclination. [1913 Webster]
- Uprose the mystic mountain range. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Uprise'
From: GCIDE
- Uprise \Up*rise"\, n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uprise'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abruptness,
- acclivity,
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- anabasis,
- apex,
- arise,
- ascend,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- bank,
- bristle,
- buss the clouds,
- cant,
- careen,
- clamber,
- climb,
- climbing,
- cock up,
- come up,
- curl upwards,
- decline,
- descend,
- dip,
- dizzy heights,
- drop,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- escalade,
- ether,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fountain,
- get up,
- go downhill,
- go up,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- gradient,
- grow,
- grow up,
- gush,
- gyring up,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- heights,
- incline,
- increase,
- jet,
- jump,
- jump up,
- keel,
- lean,
- leap,
- levitate,
- levitation,
- lift,
- list,
- loom,
- mount,
- mounting,
- Olympian heights,
- pile out,
- pitch,
- precipitousness,
- raise,
- rake,
- ramp,
- rear,
- rear up,
- retreat,
- rise,
- rise up,
- rising,
- rising ground,
- rocketing up,
- roll out,
- saltation,
- shelve,
- shoot up,
- shooting up,
- sidle,
- sit bolt upright,
- sit up,
- sky,
- slant,
- slope,
- soar,
- soaring,
- spiral,
- spire,
- spout,
- spring,
- spurt,
- stand on tiptoe,
- stand up,
- steep,
- steepness,
- stick up,
- stratosphere,
- surge,
- swag,
- swarm up,
- sway,
- sweep up,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- tilt,
- tip,
- tower,
- turn out,
- up,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrow,
- upgrowth,
- upheave,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprear,
- uprisal,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upspin,
- upspring,
- upstream,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upswarm,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- upwind,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vault,
- vertical height,
- verticalness,
- zenith,
- zooming