Upraised

Definition: Upraised

Upraised

Adjective

1. Held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag".

Date "upraised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Upraised

Synonym: lifted (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Upraised

English words defined with "upraised": high-five ♦ lifted ♦ Uppricked. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	These Upraised Hands: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series, V. 34) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Male amputee plague victim (three-quarter length portrait, facing front) on crutches, hands upraised, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The head upraised and peered over the wall to the broad smooth plain of cement.
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"Upraised" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.31% of the time. "Upraised" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	79.31%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (past tense)	13.79%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (past participle)	6.9%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

Expression using "upraised": with hands upraised. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "upraised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		erhoben (arisen, arose, exalted, extoled, raised, soared), erhob (levied, uplifted). (various references)

Hungarian		felemelt (stilted), felemelkedett (high). (various references)

Pig Latin		aisedupray

Swedish		upplyft (elevated). (various references)

Turkish		elleri kaldırarak (with hands upraised), eller havada (with hands upraised). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	procerae, procerior. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Upraised" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unravished, upraiser. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: aspired, despair, diapers, praised, residua, updries, upraise.
	-2 letters: adieus, aiders, aspire, deairs, diaper, drapes, drupes, dupers, irades, padres, paired, pardie, pareus, paries, parsed, paused, pauser, perdus, praise, prides, prised, prudes, purdas, pursed, radius, raised, rapids, rasped, redias, redips, repaid, resaid, spader, spared, sparid, spider, spirea, spired, spread, uprise, upside, uredia.
	-3 letters: adieu, aider.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: eupatrids, preaudits.
	+2 letters: persuading, praesidium, predacious, quadriceps, repudiates, upbraiders.
	+3 letters: displeasure, pasteurised, pasteurized, popularised, praesidiums, repudiators, superadding, unaspirated.
	+4 letters: displeasures, disreputable, disreputably, outspreading, praseodymium, prussianised, prussianized, quadricepses, reduplicates, repudiations, subepidermal.
	+5 letters: avoirdupoises, deuteranopias, praseodymiums, preindustrial, propaedeutics, pseudepigraph, quadriplegias, quadriplegics, quasiperiodic, spiritualized, superaddition, superdiplomat, superordinate, underemphasis, unparasitized, unpasteurized.
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