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rise

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What does rise mean?

verb

  1. To move upwards.
  2. To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
  3. To slope upward.
More meanings (33)

verb

  1. To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
  2. To become erect; to assume an upright position.
  3. To leave one's bed; to get up.
  4. (figuratively) To be resurrected.
  5. (figuratively) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
  6. To attain a higher status.
  7. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
  8. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
  9. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
  10. To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
  11. To develop, to come about or intensify.
  12. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
  13. To have its source (in a particular place).
  14. To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
  15. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
  16. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  17. To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  18. To cause to go up or ascend.
  19. To come; to offer itself.
  20. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  21. (dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

noun

  1. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  2. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  3. An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
  4. Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
  5. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  6. The front of a diaper.
  7. A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  8. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
  9. (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
  10. The height of an arch or a step.
  11. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

proper noun

  1. A surname.
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And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
A form now appeared upon the rise on the other side of the swamp, half-hidden by the mist, and came towards Bathsheba.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
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He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
Robert Louis StevensonThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeProject Gutenberg ebook #42
As they arose the girl’s revolver spoke in sharp staccato and one sank back to the deck again to rise no more.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64
Like an owl, who should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and blinded, as it were, by virtue.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135