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upleap

verb

  1. To leap up; spring up.

    intransitive

    [F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!

Where it comes from

From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry upleap (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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