Uprising
noun
1.
an insurrection or revolt.
2.
an act of rising up.
3.
an ascent or acclivity.
verb (used without object), uprose, uprisen, uprising.
1.
to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
2.
to rise into view:
As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.
3.
to rise in revolt.
4.
to come into existence or prominence:
Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.
5.
to move upward; mount up; ascend.
6.
to come above the horizon.
7.
to slope upward:
The land uprises from the river to the hills.
8.
to swell or grow, as a sound:
A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.
noun
9.
an act of rising up.
noun
1.
a revolt or rebellion
2.
(archaic) an ascent
verb (ʌpˈraɪz) -rises, -rising, -rose, -risen
1.
(transitive) to rise up
noun (ˈʌpˌraɪz)
2.
another word for rise (sense 24), rise (sense 25), rise (sense 26)
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