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Uprear

//ʌpˈɹɪə(ɹ)// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To raise something up; to rise up; to erect ambitransitive

    "With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English upreren, equivalent to up- + rear.

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