Word Meanings - UPRISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley. Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope. 2. To have an upward direction or inclination. Uprose the mystic mountain range. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPRISE)

• Soar
• Rise
• mount
• tower
• aspire
• ascend
• uprise

Related words: (words related to UPRISE)

• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• ASPIRE
  Etym: 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• TOWERING
  1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope. 2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott.
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• MOUNTAIN STATE
  Montana; -- a nickname.
• MOUNTAINEER
  1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains. 2. A rude, fierce person. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
• DISMOUNT
  1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.