upright
/ˈʌpɹaɪt/ verb C2- To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
He/she/it uprights · Past uprighted · Past participle uprighted · -ing form uprighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- upright
- He/she/it
- uprights
- Past
- uprighted
- Past participle
- uprighted
- -ing form
- uprighting
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The court of Saint-Bernard has its own particular apartment for the reception of guests; it is a long rectangle, divided by two upright gratings placed at a distance of three feet from one another to prevent a visitor from shaking hands with or passing anything to the prisoners.
The walls were as white, the pincushion as hard, the chairs as stiffly and yellowly upright as ever.
But he admired Anne immensely, and was puffed up with pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with that slim, upright figure beside him.
Mowgli stood upright--the fire pot in his hands.
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