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Upstare vs Upstate - What's the difference?

upstare | upstate |

As a verb upstare

is to stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.

As a noun upstate is

(us) the northern section of a state.

As an adjective upstate is

(us) of the northern section of a state.

As an adverb upstate is

(us) to, or from the northern section of a state.

upstare

English

Verb

(upstar)
  • To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
  • *1896 , Edward Dowden, The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley :
    • In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]
  • *1903 , Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42 :
    • Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.
  • *1927 , Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven
    • I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
  • *1999 , Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana :
    • [...] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!

    upstate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) The northern section of a state.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US) Of the northern section of a state.
    • They went hunting in upstate New York.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (US) To, or from the northern section of a state.
    • He drove upstate to visit his mother.