upways
aloft
upwardly
erect
uplong
upreach
raise
lift
airwards
airward
highflying
sursum-
come up
up and down
uprise
go up
arise
rise
raising
upbrim
uphaul
move up
heavenwards
upkindle
upbelch
ascendent
upcurve
upfloat
upslant
uparching
retardation
rising
upfurl
aerial
upthrust
acclivitous
pull up
bove
upstream
ascendantly
uphill
onwardly
aboon
onwards
push up
cloudward
upsoar
climb
stay
urvant
aerial lift
over-
uplead
upwhirl
get up
rear
upwheel
above
ascend
upfly
upstruck
upbristling
up
ascendingly
stand up
upquiver
essorant
precipitously
superexaltation
highering
overpeer
soaring
coelevated
overhand
ascent
upsloping
superiorly
pronk
upgoing
updart
upspout
upturned
uptilt
soar
kick up
elevatable
erect
highflying
ascendent
rising
aerial
acclivitous
uphill
aboon
cloudward
stay
urvant
upstruck
upbristling
up
essorant
highering
soaring
coelevated
overhand
upsloping
upturned
elevatable
upways
aloft
upwardly
airwards
airward
up and down
heavenwards
ascendantly
uphill
onwardly
aboon
onwards
above
ascendingly
precipitously
superiorly
raising
upslant
uparching
retardation
aboon
aerial lift
superexaltation
ascent
upgoing
rise
rising
soar
upreach
raise
lift
come up
uprise
go up
arise
rise
upbrim
uphaul
move up
upkindle
upbelch
upcurve
upfloat
upfurl
upthrust
pull up
upstream
push up
upsoar
climb
uplead
upwhirl
get up
rear
upwheel
ascend
upfly
stand up
upquiver
overpeer
upslant
pronk
updart
upspout
uptilt
kick up
adv
adj
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- Having an erect penis.
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- Watchful; alert.
- Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
verb
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- To spin up and align to vertical.
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- To enter a state of physiological erection.
- To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- To cause to stand up or out.
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
verb
verb
- move upwards
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- increase the level of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
noun
verb
- move upwards
- move upward
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- make audible
- cancel officially
- make off with belongings of others
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- invigorate or heighten
- raise in rank or condition
- take off or away by decreasing
- rise up
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- take illegally
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- put an end to
- remove (hair) by scalping
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- remove from a surface
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- the event of something being raised upward
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- a ride in a car
- the act of raising something
prefix
verb
- move upward
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- result or issue
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- come to the surface
- originate or come into being
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- come up, of celestial bodies
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- gather or bring together
verb
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise to one's feet
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
noun
- Elevation.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- Recruitment.
- The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
verb
verb
verb
verb
verb
noun
noun
- A suspension which resolves upwards.
- The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- Extreme stupidity.
- A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
- The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
verb
adj
- Positioned high up; elevated.
- Above the ground
- Living or taking place in the air.
- Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
- Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
- Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
- Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
noun
adj
verb
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
prep
verb
- To stream upward.
- To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.
adj
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- In the direction from the client to the server.
- Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
adv
noun
adv
adv
verb
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adv
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
noun
- An instance of soaring upward.
- A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.
- A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.
verb
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To criticise.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
verb
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To get angry.
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To move; stir.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To carve.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adv
noun
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks or bottom.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
adj
verb
adv
- Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
- Higher in rank, power, or position.
- On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
- Above zero; above freezing.
- More in number.
- Into or from heaven; in the sky.
- Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
- In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
prep
- In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface.
- Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.
- Higher in rank, status, or position.
- Farther north than.
- In preference to.
- Upstage of.
- Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
- Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
- Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
- Beyond; on the other side.
- Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;
- In addition to; besides.
adj
noun
verb
- To go up.
- To slope in an upward direction.
- To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- To become higher in pitch.
- To succeed.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
- To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
verb
adj
- Facing upwards.
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
verb
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
noun
verb
- To launch, propel upwards
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb
adj
- Done from below upward.
- Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
- Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
- With the working part on top of the standing part.
- Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
verb
noun
adv
noun
- The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
- An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
- The ascender height in a typeface.
- The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
- The way or means by which one ascends.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
adj
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
verb
- To move sharply upward.
- To function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up.
- To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
- To make more exciting.
- To raise, to increase (a price).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.
- To pass something up a hierarchy or chain of command.
- To show anger (about something).
- To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
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