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Uprising   /əprˈaɪzɪŋ/  /ˈəprˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Uprising

noun
1.
Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.  Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising.


Uprise

verb
(past uprose; past part. uprisen; pres. part. uprising)
1.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
2.
Ascend as a sound.
3.
Rise up as in fear.  Synonyms: bristle, stand up.  "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"
4.
Rise to one's feet.  Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up.
5.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
6.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
7.
Return from the dead.  Synonyms: resurrect, rise.  "The dead are to uprise"
8.
Get up and out of bed.  Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out.  "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"





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"Uprising" Quotes from Famous Books



... country at that time. One time when father was on his way home he saw an Indian boy who had been thrown from his horse. He picked him up and put him back on his horse and took him to his tepee. Later this same Indian remembered my father's kindness to him by warning us that the Indians were planning an uprising and telling us to ...
— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various
... the results of his efforts to his fellow-conspirators, "and told them that then was the opportune moment for rising against the Spaniards." He initiated the uprising himself the ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... a spry young cub of eighty-two who talked of the Civil War and the Nez Perce uprising as though they were the events of yesterday, "do you remember the time 'Death-on-the-Trail' lost his hull outfit tryin' to git through the 'Devil's Teeth'? The idee of an old feller like him startin' out alone! Why he ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... place of his birth; no toil upon either seemed to him hard or mean. All which seemed to him to matter much in the life of a man was to be free, and he was so. In that little kingdom of fertile soil and running stream no man could bid him come and go, no law ruled his uprising and his down lying; he had enough for his own wants and the wants of those about him, enough for the needs of the body, and the mind here had not many needs; at the Terra Vergine he was his own master, except so far as he cheerfully deferred to his mother; and all which he put into ...
— The Waters of Edera • Louise de la Rame, a.k.a. Ouida
... but it is to the advantage of her foreign masters to keep her in a state of weakness and corruption. At the present moment she is paying huge indemnities to various European powers as compensation for the losses they sustained during the Boxer uprising in 1900, the Boxer trouble being an attempt on the part of China to rid herself of the foreign invader. To one of these countries, Russia, she is paying an indemnity part of which consists of the expenses of thousands of troops which had no existence except on paper. It is hardly ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte


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