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verbupshoot (third-person singular simple present upshoots, present participle upshooting, simple past and past participle upshot)
present singular third person upshoots · participle present upshooting · participle past upshot · past upshot
- intransitiveTo shoot upward.
trees upshooting high
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151
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