verb
definition
To raise something up; to elevate.
definition
To move something upright; to erect.
adjective
definition
Lifted, raised, held high.
example
He stood there, with upraised glass, waiting for others to join him in a toast; holding the glass as though it were his upraised sword, challenging others to show disprespoect to one he honored.
Examples of upraised in a Sentence
These upheavals, however, are not always permanent, the upraised land sometimes settling back to its former position.
Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge.
All the rocks are of basalt and greyishtinted lavas, excepting some beds of upraised coral.
Above the ring of stamens is the ovary itself, upraised on a prolongation of the same stalk which bears the filaments, or sessile.
The altitudes along the upraised edge of the block, or range crest, are approximately 5000 ft.
The swarthy figure and brilliant costume of the "Moor" when reproduced in wood and picked out in colours produced a very striking effect, and when a small table was supported on the head by the upraised hands the idea of passive service was suggested with completeness.
On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms.
Prak swung round to see a red robed priest with arm upraised to strike the blade into the Doctor's neck.
Prak swung round to see a red robed priest with arm upraised to strike the blade into the Doctor 's neck.
The image of the hand is represented as a pair of upraised hands in a gesture of holding wealth.
At once all the other turtles awoke to life and with upraised heads joined their comrade in the rush for the seals.
The coast has been upraised from the ocean at no very distant geological epoch, and is nearly as destitute of vegetation as the Coast.
The crumpling of the earth's crust which folded the rocks of the Highlands and Southern Uplands probably upraised above the sea a series of longitudinal ridges having a general north-easterly direction.