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Soared

[sawr, sohr]

Origin

verb (used without object)

to fly upward, as a bird.

to fly at a great height, without visible movements of the pinions, as a bird.

to glide along at a height, as an airplane.

to rise or ascend to a height, as a mountain.

to rise or aspire to a higher or more exalted level: His hopes soared.

noun

an act or instance of soaring.

the height attained in soaring.

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English soren < Middle French essorer < Vulgar Latin *exaurāre, equivalent to Latin ex- ex-¹ + aur(a) air + -āre infinitive suffix

Related forms

soar·er, noun

soar·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. See fly¹. 4. tower; mount.

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Word Origin & History

soar

late 14c., from O.Fr. essorer "fly up, soar," from V.L. *exaurare "rise into the air," from L. ex- "out" + aura "breeze, air."