PLACE UPRIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does place upright mean? 

• PLACE UPRIGHT (verb)
  The verb PLACE UPRIGHT has 1 sense:

1. put into an upright position

  Familiarity information: PLACE UPRIGHT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACE UPRIGHT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into an upright position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

place upright; stand; stand up

Context example:

Can you stand the bookshelf up?

Hypernyms (to "place upright" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Cause:

stand; stand up (be standing; be upright)

Verb group:

stand; stand up (be standing; be upright)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP