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Definitions of rise
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To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
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To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
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To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; - said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
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To become of higher value; to increase in price.
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To ascend; to get up; to grow; to swell; to appear above; to spring; to begin to stir; to increase; to be promoted; to be roused; to be raised; to amount; to close a session.
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an increase in cost; " they asked for a 10% rise in rates"
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To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
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the amount a salary is increased; " he got a 3% raise"; " he got a wage hike"
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Rising.
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increase in value or to a higher point; " prices climbed steeply"; " the value of our house rose sharply last year"
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come into existence; take on form or shape; " A new religious movement originated in that country"; " a love that sprang up from friendship"; " the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; " An interesting phenomenon uprose"
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To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
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To move from a lower to a higher position: to ascend: to grow upward: to swell in quantity or extent: to take an upright position: to leave the place of rest: to tower up: to appear above the horizon: to break forth: to appear: to have its source: to increase in size, value, etc.: to become excited or hostile: to break forth into commotion or insurrection: to increase in rank, fortune, or fame: to come to mind: to close a session: ( B.) to ascend from the grave:- pa. t. rose; pa. p. risen.
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The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
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the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
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To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
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To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
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exert oneself to meet a challenge; " rise to a challenge"; " rise to the occasion"
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To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; - said of a form.
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To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
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take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
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Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
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become more extreme; " The tension heightened"
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To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
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Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
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To increase in power or fury; - said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
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To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
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To advance from a lower to a higher position; stand up; to grow or slope upward; to originate; emerge; prosper; to revolt.
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To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise.
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To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
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To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
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To become larger; to swell; - said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
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To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
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To retire; to give up a siege.
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come up, of celestial bodies; " The sun also rises"; " The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; " Jupiter ascends"
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To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
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the act of changing location in an upward direction
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be promoted, move to a better position
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a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
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increase in price or value; " the news caused a general advance on the stock market"
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To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
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To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
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The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
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return from the dead; " Christ is risen!"; " The dead are to uprise"
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To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
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Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
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Act of rising; ascent; elevation; source; beginning; increase; advance, as in value.
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Act of rising: ascent: degree of elevation: a steep: origin: increase: advance: ( mus.) elevation of the voice.
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To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
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rise up; " The building rose before them"
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become heartened or elated; " Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
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Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
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To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
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The spring of a fish to seize food ( as a fly) near the surface of the water.
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The act of rising; elevation; an elevated palce; advance, asin price, rank, etc.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: - ( a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
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increase in volume; " the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
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To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
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To increase in intensity; - said of heat.
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go up or advance; " Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
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an upward slope or grade ( as in a road); " the car couldn't make it up the rise"
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The act of rising; ascent; elevation; origin; appearance above; increase; advance in rank, honour, or fame.
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To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
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To ascend; to move upward; to get up, as from a recumbent position; to get up from rest or repose; to spring or grow; to begin to appear or to exist; to increase; to advance, as in price; to gain elevation in position; to break forth; to be elevated above the surface; to have its source in; to commence; to make insurrection; to be roused; to close a sitting, as a court of justice, or Parliament; in Scrip., to be revived from death.
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Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
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a movement upward; " they cheered the rise of the hot- air balloon"
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Risen.
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get up and out of bed; " I get up at 7 A. M. every day"; " They rose early"; " He uprose at night"
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The act of going up; ascent; distance anything goes up; a place higher than the land around it; act of beginning to appear; origin; source; increase in price, value, force, etc.; advance in rank, power, or distinction.
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Act of rising; ascent; increase; origin.
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rise in rank or status; " Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
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To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.
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a growth in strength or number or importance
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To move to a higher position; ascend; leave a place of rest; appear; increase in price, rauk, & c.; have its source; break forth.
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an upward slope or grade ( as in a road); " the car couldn't make the grade"
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To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
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To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
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Rose.
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move upward; " The fog lifted"; " The smoke arose from the forest fire"; " The mist uprose from the meadows"
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In various figurative senses.
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rise to one's feet; " The audience got up and applauded"
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; get up from kneeling, sitting, or lying down; swell in quantity, height, or extent; as, the river will rise; to increase in price, value, force, or ntensity; as, his ire rose; appear above the horizon; come into existence; originate; be promoted; rebel; as, they fear that the natives will rise; ascend from the grave.
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Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
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To come; to offer itself.
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( theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; " the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; " the rising of the Holy Ghost"; " the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son"
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come to the surface
Antonyms for rise
deduction, dethronement, bottomland, diminish, deign, lessening, decrement, crater, ebb, doom, skid, indenture, fate, declension, degradation, decease, plunge, wane, demotion, passage, bottom, lessen, comedown, demise, topple, come down, go under, fall away, drop off, Diminishment, death, plain, taper, dip, degeneracy, go down, get into bed, go to sleep, eclipse, degeneration, falloff, buckle, wilt, sinking, drop, descent, overthrow, unseating, abate, descend, dale, nose dive, expulsion, glen, hit the sack, sit, deposition, subside, dint, condescend, down, reduction, set, lowland, sit down, plummet, let up, flat, suspension, implode, declination, concavity, elision, curtain, roost, sink, deterioration, ouster, valley, declivity, go to bed, dent, relent, downhill, step down, quietus, kip down, impeachment, end, expiration, nosedive, downgrade, abasement, dismissal, hit the hay, dissolution, plop, taper off, hollow, gotterdammerung, basin, abatement, downslope, hang, depression, retire, cavity, go out, removal, devolution, diminution, downfall, decrease, subtraction, perch, tidewater, remit, dell, lie down, hanging, plummeting, discharge, fall, phase down, sack out, ratchet, decadence, recede, crumple, turn in, shrinkage, exit, vale, loll, fen, expiry, discount, de-escalate, settle, touch down, depletion, flameout, lowering, dive, indentation, shrink, loss, sleep, deletion, decline, great divide, crawl in, give, dingle, dwindle, recess, floodplain, lie, omission.
Quotes of rise
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Do you wish to rise Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
– Ralph Bakshi -
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
– Lakhdar Brahimi -
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
– James H. Breasted -
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
– Drew Carey -
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
– Paul R. Ehrlich -
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
– Hugh Mackay -
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
– Giuseppe Mazzini -
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
– Martin Scorsese -
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
– Lech Walesa
Usage examples for rise
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“ Rise and answer me one question- are you rich?" ”
– Old Fritz and the New Era by Louise Muhlbach -
“ For this reason the opportunity is one to which we may hope to rise ”
– Ireland In The New Century by Horace Plunkett -
“ He helped her to rise then she perceived that Captain Raymond and Violet were in the room. ”
– Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley -
“ Presently he saw Breitmann rise ”
– A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath -
“ One by one they will rise up and go out in silence. ”
– Trail Tales by James David Gillilan -
“ 13, 672. Did he get a rise of rent? ”
– Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie -
“ As yet, Clarissa cannot rise out of the depression that fell upon her when Horace's treachery was first made known to her. ”
– Faith and Unfaith by Duchess -
“ Can you sit and rise with grace? ”
– The Cricket by Marjorie Cooke -
“ Rise then, and tell me. ”
– Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker -
“ Can it ever rise again? ”
– Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa -
“ Sheila saw him rise ”
– The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer -
“ The great beast tried to rise as he stepped closer. ”
– Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost -
“ But he did not sleep, and in the morning could not manage to rise ”
– The Red Fairy Book by Various -
“ Shake them off; rise above them. ”
– Shirley by Charlotte Brontë -
“ Must get back before sun rise ”
– The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams -
“ I cannot rise and give thee. ”
– The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley -
“ Right, Irene; Rome is bound up with me, and we will rise or fall together! ”
– Rienzi by Edward Bulwer Lytton -
“ I watched, expecting her to rise again- but no. ”
– Hurricane Hurry by W.H.G. Kingston -
“ " Don't go, Mabel," said her husband, as she made a movement to rise ”
– Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson -
“ But no man can rise to great note as a lawyer without a party. ”
– The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
Rhymes for rise
- ais, ayes, bies, bise, buys, chastise, complies, comprise, cries, crise, decries, defies, demise, denies, despise, dies, dise, disguise, dries, dyes, eis, emprise, eyes, flies, fries, geis, goodbyes, grise, guise, guys, highs, hise, implies, incise, ise, julies, kise, lies, lise, marseilles, mies, nies, pies, pint-size, plies, pries, prize, relies, replies, revise, ries, shies, sighs, size, skies, spies, supplies, surmise, surprise, thais, thighs, ties, tries, unties, unwise, upsize, vies, wies, wise, wyse, y's;
- advise, allies, applies, apprise, arise, baptize, belies, devise, reprise;
- improvise, oversize, underlies;
- decriminalize, sensationalize;