MEANING
A sudden or marked rise in activity, feeling, or amount.
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- upsurge in demand
- upsurge of anger
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An upsurge in demand exhausted the small workshop's reserves.
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- upsurge
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Singular upsurge; plural upsurges. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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