upbring

U1P3B3R1I1N1G2

verb

To bring up.

OriginMiddle English upbringen →
Scrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

verbupbring (third-person singular simple present upbrings, present participle upbringing, simple past and past participle upbrought)

present singular third person upbrings · participle present upbringing · participle past upbrought · past upbrought

  1. obsoleteTo bring up.

    From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Englishupbringen
  2. Englishupbring

From Middle English upbringen, equivalent to up- + bring. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apbrange, West Frisian opbringe, Dutch opbrengen, German Low German upbrengen, German aufbringen, Danish opbringe, Swedish uppbringa.

More words from Middle English

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

burpingbringup
Cite this entry
APA

upbring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbring

MLA

“upbring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbring. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “upbring,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbring.

Source: upbring on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.