'Rise' definitions:

Definition of 'rise'

From: WordNet
noun
A growth in strength or number or importance [ant: downfall, fall]
noun
The act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise, ascent, ascension, ascending]
noun
An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall]
noun
A movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall]
noun
The amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase]
noun
The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises [syn: upgrade, rise, rising slope]
noun
A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: lift, rise]
noun
(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" [syn: emanation, rise, procession]
noun
An increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates" [syn: rise, boost, hike, cost increase]
noun
Increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market" [syn: advance, rise]
verb
Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down]
verb
Increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year" [syn: rise, go up, climb]
verb
Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down]
verb
Rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear]
verb
Come to the surface [syn: surface, come up, rise up, rise]
verb
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" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow]
verb
Move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great [syn: ascend, move up, rise]
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Go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb, rise] [ant: wane]
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Become more extreme; "The tension heightened" [syn: heighten, rise]
verb
Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]
verb
Rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" [syn: rise, jump, climb up]
verb
Become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
verb
Exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
verb
Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up]
verb
Increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room" [syn: rise, prove]
verb
Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set]
verb
Return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise]

Definition of 'Rise'

From: GCIDE
  • Rise \Rise\ (r[imac]z), v. i. [imp. Rose (r[=o]z); p. p. Risen; p. pr. & vb. n. Rising.] [AS. r[imac]san; akin to OS. r[imac]san, D. rijzen, OHG. r[imac]san to rise, fall, Icel. r[imac]sa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, v.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster] (b) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. [1913 Webster] (c) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. [1913 Webster] (d) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. [1913 Webster] (e) 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. [1913 Webster] (f) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. [1913 Webster] (g) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. [1913 Webster]
  • He that would thrive, must rise by five. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster] (h) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. [1913 Webster] (i) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. "A rising ground." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (j) To retire; to give up a siege. [1913 Webster]
  • He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] (k) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically:
  • [1913 Webster] (a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good." --Matt. v. 45. [1913 Webster] (b) 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. [1913 Webster] (c) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. [1913 Webster] (d) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. [1913 Webster]
  • A scepter shall rise out of Israel. --Num. xxiv. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. "High winde . . . began to rise, high passions -- anger, hate." --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) To become of higher value; to increase in price. [1913 Webster]
  • Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. --Locke. [1913 Webster] (c) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. [1913 Webster] (d) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. [1913 Webster] (e) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. [1913 Webster] (f) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. In various figurative senses. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. [1913 Webster]
  • At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • No more shall nation against nation rise. --Pope. [1913 Webster] (b) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. [1913 Webster]
  • Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) 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. [1913 Webster] (d) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. [1913 Webster]
  • A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] (e) To come; to offer itself. [1913 Webster]
  • There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To ascend from the grave; to come to life. [1913 Webster]
  • But now is Christ risen from the dead. --1. Cor. xv. 20. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. [1913 Webster]
  • It was near nine . . . before the House rose. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale.
  • Usage: Rise, Appreciate. Some in America use the word appreciate for "rise in value;" as, stocks appreciate, money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in England, but it is less common there. It is undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning, which ought not to be confused with one so entirely different. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rise'

From: GCIDE
  • Rise \Rise\, n.
  • 1. The act of rising, or the state of being risen. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. [1913 Webster]
  • All wickednes taketh its rise from the heart. --R. Nelson. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • The rise or fall that may happen in his constant revenue by a Spanish war. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. [1913 Webster]
  • The ordinary rises and falls of the voice. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rise'

From: GCIDE
  • Rise \Rise\, v. t. [See Rise, v. i.]
  • 1. To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 2. 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.
  • Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase. --W. C. Russell. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'rise'

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Words containing 'Rise'