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Upheaving
- verb - lift forcefully from beneath
Upholding
- verb - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
- stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
- support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"
Uplifting
- verb - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
- lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
- lift up or elevate
- the rise of something; "the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky"
Uploading
- verb - transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
Upraising
- verb - cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
Uprooting
- verb - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
Upsetting
- verb - cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"
- disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
- form metals with a swage
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
Upsitting
- - A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
Upstaging
- verb - move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
- steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
Urinating
- verb - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had peed on the expensive rug"
- pass after the manner of urine; "The sick men urinated blood"