uprear
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up·rear
(ŭp-rîr′)v.up·reared,up·rear·ing,up·rears
v.tr.
To raise or lift up.
v.intr.
To rise up:The stallion upreared on its hind legs.
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uprear
(ʌpˈrɪə)vb
(tr) to lift up; raise
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up•rear
(ʌpˈrɪər)v.t.
1. to raise up; lift.
2. to build; erect.
3. to elevate the dignity of; exalt.
4. to bring up.
v.i. 5. to rise.
[1250–1300]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
uprear
Past participle:upreared
Gerund:uprearing
Imperative |
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uprear |
uprear |
Present |
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I uprear |
you uprear |
he/she/it uprears |
we uprear |
you uprear |
they uprear |
Preterite |
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I upreared |
you upreared |
he/she/it upreared |
we upreared |
you upreared |
they upreared |
Present Continuous |
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I am uprearing |
you are uprearing |
he/she/it is uprearing |
we are uprearing |
you are uprearing |
they are uprearing |
Present Perfect |
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I have upreared |
you have upreared |
he/she/it has upreared |
we have upreared |
you have upreared |
they have upreared |
Past Continuous |
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I was uprearing |
you were uprearing |
he/she/it was uprearing |
we were uprearing |
you were uprearing |
they were uprearing |
Past Perfect |
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I had upreared |
you had upreared |
he/she/it had upreared |
we had upreared |
you had upreared |
they had upreared |
Future |
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I will uprear |
you will uprear |
he/she/it will uprear |
we will uprear |
you will uprear |
they will uprear |
Future Perfect |
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I will have upreared |
you will have upreared |
he/she/it will have upreared |
we will have upreared |
you will have upreared |
they will have upreared |
Future Continuous |
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I will be uprearing |
you will be uprearing |
he/she/it will be uprearing |
we will be uprearing |
you will be uprearing |
they will be uprearing |
Present Perfect Continuous |
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I have been uprearing |
you have been uprearing |
he/she/it has been uprearing |
we have been uprearing |
you have been uprearing |
they have been uprearing |
Future Perfect Continuous |
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I will have been uprearing |
you will have been uprearing |
he/she/it will have been uprearing |
we will have been uprearing |
you will have been uprearing |
they will have been uprearing |
Past Perfect Continuous |
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I had been uprearing |
you had been uprearing |
he/she/it had been uprearing |
we had been uprearing |
you had been uprearing |
they had been uprearing |
Conditional |
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I would uprear |
you would uprear |
he/she/it would uprear |
we would uprear |
you would uprear |
they would uprear |
Past Conditional |
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I would have upreared |
you would have upreared |
he/she/it would have upreared |
we would have upreared |
you would have upreared |
they would have upreared |
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The Sephalica, budding with young bees,Uprear'd its purple stem around her knees :
The pony did not like it, sometimes so successfully resisting with spread, taut legs and mutinous head-tossings, as to overcome the jerk of the ropes, and, at the same time wheeling, to fall heavily on its side or touprear as the pull on the ropes was relaxed.
From a window of an apartment house thatupreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman.
Their long, massive necksupreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads.
So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock thatupreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man.
He saw his vision coming true, and on the big flat wasupreared anew his golden city of the snows.
The runner passed them a dozen feet away, crossed the wet sand, never parsing, till the froth wash was to his knees while above him, ten feet at least,upreared a was of overtopping water.
Dolly,upreared, with distended nostrils and wild eyes, was pawing the air madly with her fore legs.
These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva--and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murderous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till sheuprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.
Sheupreared on her own knees in an agony of terror, clasping his knees and supplicating him to desist.
Am I not utterly unclean, a wretch Doomed to be banished, and in banishment Forgo the sight of all my dearest ones, And never tread again my native earth; Or else to wed my mother and slay my sire, Polybus, who begat me andupreared? If one should say, this is the handiwork Of some inhuman power, who could blame His judgment?
There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the sternupreared almost directly above the bow.
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