Home › Words › U › upleapupleapupleap means to leap up; spring up.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, upleap ranks #16,750 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).verbTo leap up; spring up.e.g.“[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!” — 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 106:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.forthleap 74% match — To leap forth or out. vs upleap →leapful 73% match — Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps. vs upleap →beleap 72% match — To leap upon; cover. vs upleap →leaper 69% match — One who leaps. vs upleap →lowp 69% match — To leap. vs upleap →outleap 67% match — A sally; flight; escape. vs upleap →laup 66% match — to jump vs upleap →capreol 66% match — A high leap. vs upleap →