upleap

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verb

To leap up; spring up.

OriginMiddle English uplepen →
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Meanings

verbupleap (third-person singular simple present upleaps, present participle upleaping, simple past upleaped or upleapt or (archaic) uplept or (archaic) uplope, past participle upleaped or upleapt or (archaic) uplept or (archaic) uplope or (archaic) uplopen)

present singular third person upleaps · participle present upleaping · past upleaped · past upleapt · archaic past uplept · archaic past uplope · participle past upleaped · participle past upleapt · archaic participle past uplept · archaic participle past uplope · archaic participle past uplopen

  1. intransitiveTo leap up; spring up.

    [F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!

    1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 106

Origin

  1. Middle Englishuplepen
  2. Englishupleap

From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).

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