upspear

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verb

To rise or point upward like spears.

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Meanings

verbupspear (third-person singular simple present upspears, present participle upspearing, simple past and past participle upspeared)

present singular third person upspears · participle present upspearing · participle past upspeared · past upspeared

  1. archaicintransitivepoeticTo rise or point upward like spears.

    A hundred tents upspear from out the foliage, and countless flocks and herds are safely pasturing around them. That is Beer-sheba, on the borders of the Philistines' land […]

    1883, Robina Forrester Hardy, The Children of the Bible, page 11

Origin

From up- + spear.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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