In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UPRISEN
UPRISE
resurrect, rise, uprise
(verb) return from the dead; “Christ is risen!”; “The dead are to uprise”
rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
(verb) move upward; “The fog lifted”; “The smoke arose from the forest fire”; “The mist uprose from the meadows”
rise, come up, uprise, ascend
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies; “The sun also rises”; “The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...”; “Jupiter ascends”
arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up
(verb) rise to one’s feet; “The audience got up and applauded”
bristle, uprise, stand up
(verb) rise up as in fear; “The dog’s fur bristled”; “It was a sight to make one’s hair uprise!”
uprise
(verb) ascend as a sound; “The choirs singing uprose and filled the church”
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape; “A new religious movement originated in that country”; “a love that sprang up from friendship”; “the idea for the book grew out of a short story”; “An interesting phenomenon uprose”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
uprisen
simple past tense and past participle of uprise
Anagrams
• purines, risen up
Source: Wiktionary
UPRISE
Up*rise", v. i.
1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley. Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope.
2. To have an upward direction or inclination. Uprose the mystic mountain range. Tennyson.
Up*rise", n.
Definition: The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.] Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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31 March 2025
IMPROVISED
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
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