Definition of "upsweeping" []

• Present participle of upsweep. (verb)

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• "The long, upsweeping black crest of the lapwings seemed incongruous as the thin feathers flapped in the breeze."
• "Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, said that when chimpanzees were angry "they will grunt or spit or make an abrupt, upsweeping gesture that, if a human were to do it, you'd recognize it as aggressive.""
• "The upsweeping surge of higher-level resonant light is in preparation for a general exodus of stellar mass into a more refined universal complex."