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Definitions for upsurge
ʌpˈsɜrdʒ; ˈʌpˌsɜrdʒup·surge

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rush, spate, surge, upsurgenoun

    a sudden forceful flow

  2. surge, upsurgenoun

    a sudden or abrupt strong increase

    "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime"

Wiktionary

  1. upsurgenoun

    a sudden strong rise or flow

  2. upsurgeverb

    to surge up, or to become stronger or greater

Wikipedia

  1. Upsurge

    Upsurge is a novel by Australian writer J. M. Harcourt. Set in Perth, Western Australia, during the Great Depression, it was the first novel to be banned by the then Commonwealth Book Censorship Board and the first to be prosecuted by police in Australia.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Upsurge

    up-surj′, v.i. to surge up.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upsurge in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upsurge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of upsurge in a Sentence

  1. Ashok Ghosh:

    The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate, there is no law here to check excessive groundwater withdrawal.

  2. Mukaibar Shah:

    Media suddenly starts reporting the upsurge of Covid cases only on weekends to make people fear, but during political rally it sees no problem and this only proves that Corona is a media created virus and all Covid cases is a fake news.

  3. Nathan Thrall:

    This upsurge is mostly all bad for Abbas, any change in confronting Israel is necessarily a weakening of Abbas and a strengthening of his Palestinian political opponents, both within Fatah and outside it.

  4. Nathan Thrall:

    Historically, diplomatic activity in this conflict has increased in response to violence, the U.S. is shifting from largely ignoring this conflict to sending the secretary of state to reinvest in dealing with it. That is something Abbas desires. But the risks that attend this upsurge are much greater for him than the potential benefits.

  5. Antonio Guterres:

    Hate speech is spreading and public discourse is being coarsened, social media is being exploited as a platform for bigotry. We must all show solidarity in response to this dangerous upsurge in hatred.

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