uprise
Use Uprise in a sentence
verb (used without object)
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.
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Example sentences
Still, some hundred millions started buying and that did put an uprise pressure on oil price.
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