upraise

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My tunnel went into the hill on a slight upraise, and I could do the work alone.

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  1. transitive verb To raise or lift up; elevate.

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  • I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forbore to upraise the sash. —  krimiblog.de
  • If like some already forecast in developed nations inflation will be in upraise than Peruvian economists should take rather now their preparation and by necessary stuff NOW!!! —  Living in Peru : News
  • My tunnel went into the hill on a slight upraise, and I could do the work alone. —  The Spirit of Sweetwater
  • If the wall holds till it's blown up, Dick has got to get back along the crosscut, lower himself down the upraise, and travel nearly a mile through tunnelings before he reaches a shaft to git out. —  A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
  • For Zeus who hates the braggart's boast Beheld that gold-bespangled host; As at the goal the paean they upraise, He struck them with his forked lightning blaze Str. —  Oedipus Trilogy
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. upraise, v.
  2. from Middle English upreysen; from up + raise.
 

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/əpˈreɪz/
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