Uprise vs Ascend - What's the difference?
uprise | ascend |
(archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
(archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
* Tennyson
To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
* 1998 , William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace (page 92)
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
To slope in an upward direction.
To go up.
To succeed.
(figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
As verbs the difference between uprise and ascend
is that uprise is to rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon while ascend is to move upward, to fly, to soar.As a noun uprise
is the act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.uprise
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Verb
- The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
- Uprose the mystic mountain range.
- They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* *ascend
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(wikipedia ascend)Verb
(en verb)- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- The road ascends the mountain.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.