To rise up or surge upward, especially in a swelling or flowing motion.
From Late Latin assurgere (to rise up), combining ad- (to) + surgere (to rise or surge). Related to the word surge.
This rare verb captures something poetry loves—the idea of something swelling and rising as if with sudden energy or emotion, like waves or crowds or feeling itself.
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