Upsurged

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have surged upward quickly and markedly in magnitude or force
2. To have experienced a sudden and vigorous rise in intensity or scale
3. Moved upwards rapidly with great strength or volume

Etymology: "Upsurged" is the past tense and past participle of "upsurge," a verb meaning to rise suddenly and sharply. The verb is built from "up" and "surge," so its history is essentially the history of its two parts. "Surge" comes from the Old French "sourgeon," meaning to rise up, which itself goes back to the Latin "surgere," to rise, a compound of "sub" (under) and "regere" (to direct). That Latin verb is also the source of "surrection" and of "resurgent," so the family of words all shares the idea of something rising. The "up" prefix is an ordinary English addition that strengthens the sense of upward movement, a pattern seen in many verbs like "uproot" and "upheave." The compound "upsurge" as a noun and verb combines these two elements in a way that spells out the motion in plain terms. The past form "upsurged" follows the regular English pattern of adding "-ed."

Synonyms: surged, rose, soared, escalated, increased

Antonyms: declined, dropped, decreased, fell, subsided