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Think upright, eye level with your computer, and with your back fully supported.

It will usually be a classic upright, without the ability to transform to a handheld, and with very few additional tools or features.

Very often back problems are caused by a lack of core stability—your core being the muscles around your abdomen that keep you upright.

It provides a base to transfer power between the upper and lower body and gives you the stability to move swiftly and stay upright in unpredictable terrain.

Instead of lugging a heavy upright vacuum out of the closet, you just pop this one off its wall charger and go to town.

As I tried to get upright, I realized with horror that the blood was my own.

He slept in an upright position in a custom armchair, so the reasons for his lying down to sleep are open to speculation.

They look like evil corn silos or upright storm sewers or a trio of escaped steroidal church organ pipes wearing party hats.

So why not keep all passengers in the ‘upright position’ when they fly?

In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.

In shape it is curved, like those things for candles attached to upright pianos, but with a weighted foot to hold it firm.

Mrs. Ducksmith, who had sat with overwhelmed head in her hands, started bolt upright, and looked at him like one thunderstruck.

He had a flashlight gun in his right hand, and a photographer's tripod was propped upright between his knees.

The sick woman had raised herself upright, and was stretching her arms towards them.

The boiler was of six wrought-iron upright tubes, one within the other.

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On this page you'll find 155 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to upright, such as: erect, perpendicular, vertical, plumb/plum, standing, and straight.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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