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Rise

noun
1.
A growth in strength or number or importance.
2.
The act of changing location in an upward direction.  Synonyms: ascending, ascension, ascent.
3.
An upward slope or grade (as in a road).  Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, upgrade.
4.
A movement upward.  Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rising.
5.
The amount a salary is increased.  Synonyms: hike, raise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase.  "He got a wage hike"
6.
The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises.  Synonyms: rising slope, upgrade.
7.
A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.  Synonym: lift.
8.
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.  Synonyms: emanation, procession.  "The rising of the Holy Ghost" , "The doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son"
9.
An increase in cost.  Synonyms: boost, cost increase, hike.
10.
Increase in price or value.  Synonym: advance.
verb
(past rose; past part. risen; pres. part. rising)
1.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, uprise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
2.
Increase in value or to a higher point.  Synonyms: climb, go up.  "The value of our house rose sharply last year"
3.
Rise to one's feet.  Synonyms: arise, get up, stand up, uprise.
4.
Rise up.  Synonyms: lift, rear.
5.
Come to the surface.  Synonyms: come up, rise up, surface.
6.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, spring up, uprise.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
7.
Move to a better position in life or to a better job.  Synonyms: ascend, move up.
8.
Go up or advance.  Synonyms: climb, mount, wax.
9.
Become more extreme.  Synonym: heighten.
10.
Get up and out of bed.  Synonyms: arise, get up, turn out, uprise.  "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"
11.
Rise in rank or status.  Synonyms: climb up, jump.
12.
Become heartened or elated.
13.
Exert oneself to meet a challenge.  "Rise to the occasion"
14.
Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance.  Synonyms: arise, rebel, rise up.
15.
Increase in volume.  Synonym: prove.
16.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: ascend, come up, uprise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
17.
Return from the dead.  Synonyms: resurrect, uprise.  "The dead are to uprise"



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"Rise" Quotes from Famous Books



... generosity in their feelings and uprightness and honor in their hearts. The King, in all the malignant security of triumphant power, in all the composed consciousness of great intellectual talents, affected to return him eloquence for eloquence; said his ancestors would rise out of their tombs to reproach him if he abandoned the rights that had been transmitted to him; that he could not live with reputation if he lightly abandoned an enterprise which had been the first act of his reign; that he would sooner be crushed with his whole army, etc. And then, descending ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various
... rise as she enters, except Rylton, who is reading a letter of such deep importance, evidently, that he seems hardly to note his wife's entrance. Tita beckons to them ...
— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford
... blood, you know!" howled the elder of the fishermen, tossing his arms wildly abroad, "it was my own heart," he cried, letting the last vowel die away and rise again in mournful refrain, while he stared tragically into ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... Honourable John Ruffin with deep feeling. Then he added sententiously: "Well, we must by no means check the generous impulses of the young. But before I decide I should like to see your protegee. I take it that she does not rise to those heights of cleanliness at which you maintain yourself and the Lump; but does she display sufficient of ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... with the clamor of an attacking host; the languor of the hot afternoons, when life is a dream of light and green water, when the play of mirage drowns the foundations of the lidi in the lagoon, so that trees and buildings rise out of the sea as though some strong Amphion-music were but that moment calling them from the deep; and when day departs, that magic of the swiftly falling dusk, and that white foam and flower of St. Mark's ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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