<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object): to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture</li><li>to rise into view: As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.</li><li>to rise in revolt</li><li>to come into existence or prominence: Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.</li><li>to move upward; mount up; ascend</li><li>to come above the horizon</li><li>to slope upward: The land uprises from the river to the hills.</li><li>to swell or grow, as a sound: A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act of rising up</li></ul>