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What (who) is upraised - definition


upraised      
If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
A soldier stood on the centre line of the road, his arm upraised.
...the landlady's upraised glass.
ADJ
upraise      
¦ verb raise to a higher level.
Upraise      
·vt To Raise; to lift up.
Examples of use of upraised
1. Happy holidays." It also featured a hand–drawn smiley face and a hand with an upraised middle finger.
2. On the coffee table sits a life–size articulated wooden hand, the kind figure–drawing students use, with its middle finger upraised.
3. At his gargantuan 1'30 funeral –– the stunning last scene in Barnes‘ novel –– his favorite medium sways, her arms upraised, and channels the dead, Arthur among them, for a rapt audience.
4. A lover of food, music and constant touring, Khan never heeded his doctor’s warnings to diet or slow down; he would sing for hours at a time, palms upraised as if channeling energy from his audience.
5. We sat behind him, so we could only see his hand upraised or his finger prodding in the direction of the judges‘ bench as he refused to give his name and insisted on challenging the right of the court to try him.