up-surge

up·surge

[v. uhp-surj; n. uhp-surj] verb, up·surged, up·surg·ing, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to surge up; increase; rise: Water upsurged. Crime upsurged.
noun
2.
the act of surging up; a large or rapid increase: an upsurge in sales.

Origin:
1915–20; up- + surge

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upsurge
 
vb
1.  literary chiefly (intr) to surge up
 
n
2.  a rapid rise or swell

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Up-surge is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Word Origin & History

upsurge
1928, from up- + surge.
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