uprise : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: uprise	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for uprise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uprise v 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" Synonym(s): originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church" rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" Synonym(s): bristle, uprise, stand up rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" Synonym(s): arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up Antonym(s): lie, lie down, sit, sit down come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" Synonym(s): rise, come up, uprise, ascend Antonym(s): go down, go under, set move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" Synonym(s): rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise Antonym(s): come down, descend, fall, go down return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" Synonym(s): resurrect, rise, uprise get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" Synonym(s): get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise Antonym(s): bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Uprise \Up*rise"\, v. i. 1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. [bd]Uprose the sun.[b8] --Cowley. Uprose the virgin with the morning light. --Pope. 2. To have an upward direction or inclination. Uprose the mystic mountain range. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Uprise \Up*rise"\, n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.] Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? --Shak.