upraise
to raise up; lift or elevate.
to raise from a depressed or dejected humor; cheer.
Origin of upraise
1Other words from upraise
- up·rais·er, noun
Words Nearby upraise
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How to use upraise in a sentence
She penetrated into no fresh kingdoms, she saw no new peaks upraise themselves or valleys carve themselves at her feet.
Arundel | Edward Frederic BensonWhen a height of nine thousand feet had been reached the rugged upraise opened out into a nearly level plateau.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania | Jewett Castello GilsonI have spent fifty years of my life trying to upraise my class.
From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography | George Edwards M.P., O.B.E.He struck the root of the tree with his tunnel and made an upraise to the inside of the trunk.
Bears I Have Met--and Others | Allen KellyMrs. Fane looked with her kind round eyes into the worn face that tried to upraise itself to greet her.
Old Kensington | Miss Thackeray
British Dictionary definitions for upraise
/ (ʌpˈreɪz) /
mainly literary to lift up; elevate
archaic to praise; exalt
Derived forms of upraise
- upraiser, noun
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