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Meaning of upsteal | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To steal or creep upward.

intransitive, poetic

Examples

“[…] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.”
“Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

upstealing upsteals upstep upstepped upstepping upstick

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