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uprise

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"Get out of bed"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPart of speech verbSorted eiprsuStarts with UEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. get up and out of bed

Word origin

From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- + rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”).

Used in a sentence

  • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
  • With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.
  • The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]

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