upstand

verb

1. To stand up; arise; be erect; rise.

   intransitive

   At once, upstood the monarch, and upstood / The wise Ulysses.

Where it comes from

From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan (“to rise, stand up”), German aufstehen (“to arise, get up, stand up”), Swedish uppstå (“to arise, emerge, come up”).

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

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