Definitions

uprear

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /

VERB

erect

Synonyms

WEAK

assemble bring about cobble up compose construct create effect elevate fabricate fashion fit together forge form found frame fudge together heighten hoist initiate institute join knock together lift make make up manufacture mount organize pitch plant prefabricate produce put together put up raise rear run up set up shape stand stand up throw together throw up upraise

VERB

elevate

Synonyms

WEAK

boost erect fetch up heave heighten hike up hoist jack up levitate lift pick up poise pump put up pyramid raise ramp rear shoot up stilt take up tilt uphold uplift upraise

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Natural barriers uprear before the traveler, barriers which he must scale with sweat and straining muscles.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

Would that thegn and coerl were filled with thy spirit, and the Dane would no longer uprear his raven standard in the land.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

Fire-eyed Valour, guard the land; Here uprear thy fearless crest; Princess, Kate, Alice, &c.

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Upon the ruins of our present immature civilization it will uprear a charming state of society.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Beyond the lake, rising in mid-air like a great gray wall, are the sheer precipices of Monument Mountain, and in the hazy distance the loftier Taconics uprear their grand Dome in the illimitable blue.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

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