uprise

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of UPRISE

to leave one's bed <uprise! we have lots of work to do today!>

Synonyms get up, rise, roll out, turn out, uprise

Related Words arouse, awake, awaken, bestir, stir, wake

Near Antonyms catnap, doze, drop off, lie up, nap, nod, rest, sleep, slumber, snooze; bunk, perch, roost, settle; couch, doss (down) [chiefly British], flop (down), lie (down), recline

Antonyms bed (down), retire, turn in

to move or extend upward <as we went from the coast into the state's interior, the land gradually began uprising and eventually we were on mountainous terrain>

Synonyms arise, aspire, climb, lift, mount, rise, soar, thrust, up, uprise, upthrust, upturn

Related Words surge, tower; boost, elevate, raise, upheave, uplift, upraise; balloon, blast off, take off, zoom; crest, scale, surmount, top; cant, incline, lean, list, recline, slant, slope, tilt, tip

Near Antonyms dive, nose-dive, plummet, sink, slide

Antonyms decline, descend, dip, drop, fall (off), plunge

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