Definition of "soar"

soar

/sɔː/

verb
third-person singular simple present soars, present participle soaring, simple past and past participle soared
1. (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
  Quotations
  When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,
  1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], stanza LII, page 34
2. To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
3. To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
4. To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
  Quotations
  A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.
  2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 57
5. (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
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  Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,
  1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, page 65
  Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.
  1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene ii, page 4
  KORRIS: I have tasted your heart. You have been with them, but you are still "of" us. Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight.
  1988 March 21, Vaughn Armstrong, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television
noun
plural soars
1. The act of soaring.
  Quotations
  this apparent soar of the hooded falcon
  c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
2. An upward flight.

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