"upsteal" meaning in English

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        "2": "up",
        "3": "steal"
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  "etymology_text": "up- + steal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "upsteals",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "upstealing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstole",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstolen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212",
          "text": "[…] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day",
          "text": "Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "To steal or creep upward."
      ],
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        "(poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward."
      ],
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        "poetic"
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  "word": "upsteal"
}

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        "2": "up",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "up- + steal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "upsteals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstealing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstole",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstolen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212",
          "text": "[…] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day",
          "text": "Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal or creep upward."
      ],
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        "(poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward."
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  "word": "upsteal"
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