uprear

[ uhp-reer ]

verb (used with object)

1. to raise up; lift:

   The horse upreared its head and whinnied.

2. to build; erect:

   to uprear a monument in stone.

3. to elevate the dignity of; exalt:

   God upreared Abraham by making him the father of many nations.

4. to bring up; rear:

   to uprear children in a good environment.

verb (used without object)

1. to rise.

uprear

/ ʌpˈrɪə /

verb

1. tr to lift up; raise

Word History and Origins

Origin of uprear¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, uprear is from the Middle English word upreren. See up-, rear ²

Example Sentences

To climb the huge boulders the animals were compelled to uprear and struggle blindly through the tangled mass of vegetation.

From Slate

For whilst the thunder’s awful voice was heard, The little suppliant with its hands uprear’d.

From Project Gutenberg

The banquet-hall whirled around him like a vast architectural nightmare; through the dizzy glare he beheld perspectives and colonnades without end; new zones of porticoes seemed to uprear themselves upon the real fabric, and bury their summits in heights of sky to which Babel never rose.

From Project Gutenberg

Beyond the lake, rising in mid-air like a great gray wall, are the sheer precipices of Monument Mountain, and in the hazy distance the loftier Taconics uprear their grand Dome in the illimitable blue.

From Project Gutenberg

From the front lawn a tunnel constructed by Dickens passes beneath the highway to "The Wilderness," a thickly wooded shrubbery, where magnificent cedars uprear their venerable forms and many sombre firs, survivors of the forest which erst covered the countryside, cluster upon the hill-top.

From Project Gutenberg