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SOAR UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soar up mean? 

SOAR UP (verb)
  The verb SOAR UP has 1 sense:

1. rise rapidlyplay

  Familiarity information: SOAR UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOAR UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rise rapidly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom

Context example:

the dollar soared against the yen

Hypernyms (to "soar up" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "soar up"):

billow; wallow (rise up as if in waves)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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