Antonyms for upraise


Grammar : Verb
Spell : uhp-reyz
Phonetic Transcription : ʌpˈreɪz


Definition of upraise

  • verb erect
  • verb elevate
Example sentences :
  • I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forbore to upraise the sash.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • And each cañon as he passed was empty, and each had some shrub, like a crouching man, to startle him and upraise the revolver.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The floor and upraise of this recess is plastered with adobe, which in several places is smooth and well made.
  • Extract from : « Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 » by Jesse Walter Fewkes
  • For national right and justice, for really oppressed nationalities, she has long ceased to upraise her voice or her arm.
  • Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various
  • Mrs. Fane looked with her kind round eyes into the worn face that tried to upraise itself to greet her.
  • Extract from : « Old Kensington » by Miss Thackeray
  • I have spent fifty years of my life trying to upraise my class.
  • Extract from : « From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography » by George Edwards M.P., O.B.E.
  • He struck the root of the tree with his tunnel and made an upraise to the inside of the trunk.
  • Extract from : « Bears I Have Met--and Others » by Allen Kelly

Synonyms for upraise

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