uploom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

up- +‎ loom

Verb[edit]

uploom (third-person singular simple present uplooms, present participle uplooming, simple past and past participle uploomed)

  1. (intransitive, poetic, archaic) To loom upward.
    • 1857, Paul Hamilton Hayne, “Lines”, in Sonnets, and Other Poems:
      But from that place of bale uploom / The phantoms of unburied years