raise¹ /rāz/

1. To cause to rise
2. To make higher or greater
3. To lift
4. To exalt
5. To advance
6. To elevate
7. To cause to stand up or upright
8. To rouse
9. To stir up
10. To elate
11. To rear, grow or breed (children, animals, etc)
12. To produce
13. To give rise to
14. To build, erect
15. To bring into being
16. To bring to life (from the dead)
17. To utter (esp a question)
18. To establish
19. To institute
20. To bring forward into consideration or notice
21. To bring into relief
22. To intensify
23. To call up
24. To cause (land) to rise in view by approaching (nautical)
25. To contact by radio
26. To make a higher bid than (cards)
27. To levy, get together, collect (taxes, an army, etc)
28. To cause (a lump) to swell
29. To extol
30. To remove, take off
31. To produce a nap on

1. An act of raising or lifting
2. A rising road
3. An increase in wages or salary (informal; esp N American)

raisˈable or raiseˈable adjective

raisˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that raises a building, etc
2. The riser of a step

raisˈing noun

raised beach noun (geology)

An old sea margin above the present water level

raised bog noun

A type of sphagnum bog, convex in shape and caused by the upward growth of vegetation and failure of dead plant material to decompose

raised pastry or raised pie noun

A pastry or pie without support of a dish at the sides

raisˈing-bee noun (US)

A gathering of neighbours to help in raising the frame of a house, etc

raise a hand to

To hit, or generally treat badly

raise an eyebrow or raise one's eyebrows

To look surprised (at)

raise a siege

To abandon, or put an end to, a siege

raise Cain or raise the roof (informal)

1. To make a lot of noise
2. To be extremely angry

raise hell or raise the devil (informal)

To make a lot of trouble

raise money on

To get money by pawning or selling, esp privately

raise one's glass

To drink a health (to)

raise one's hat

To take one's hat off in salutation (to)

raise the market (upon) (stock exchange)

To bring about a rise in prices (to the disadvantage of)

raise the wind (slang)

To get together the necessary money by any means

raise² /rāz/ (N Eng)

A cairn

rise /rīz/

1. To get up
2. To become erect, stand up
3. To come back to life
4. To become hostile
5. To revolt (often with up)
6. To close a session
7. To break up camp
8. To raise a siege
9. To move upward
10. To come up to the surface
11. To fly up from the ground
12. To come above the horizon
13. To grow upward
14. To advance in rank, fortune, etc
15. To swell (medicine)
16. (of dough) to swell under the action of yeast
17. To increase
18. To increase in price
19. To become more acute in pitch
20. To be excited
21. To be cheered
22. To come into view, notice or consciousness
23. To spring up
24. To take origin
25. To have source
26. To come into being
27. To extend upward
28. To tower
29. To slope up
30. To come to hand, chance to come
31. To respond (eg to provocation, or to a challenging situation)
32. To excavate upward
33. To feel nausea (also figurative)

1. To cause to rise
2. To surmount (US)
3. To raise, view better by nearing (nautical)

1. Rising
2. Ascent
3. A coming up to the surface, as that of a fish
4. The sport of making a butt of someone by deception
5. Increase in height
6. Vertical difference or amount of elevation or rising
7. Increase of salary or price, etc
8. An upward slope
9. A sharpening of pitch
10. Source, origin
11. Occasion (obsolete)
12. A response, esp an angry or excited one
13. The riser of a step
14. A shaft excavated from below

rīsˈer noun

1. A person who rises, esp from bed
2. That which rises
3. The upright portion of a step
4. A vertical pipe, eg in a building or an oil rig

rīsˈing noun

1. The action or process of the verb in any sense
2. A revolt
3. A prominence
4. A swelling
5. A hill

1. Ascending
2. Increasing
3. Coming above the horizon
4. Advancing
5. Growing up
6. Approaching the age of
7. Quite as much as (US)

rising damp noun

Wetness rising through bricks and mortar in a wall

rising tide noun (figurative)

An increase in the frequency or occurrence of a specified thing, a growing trend or tendency

give rise to

To cause, bring about

on the rise

In process of rising, esp in price

rise above

To remain unaffected, unlimited or unconstrained by

rise and shine

A facetiously cheerful invitation or instruction to get out of bed briskly, esp in the morning

rise from the ranks

1. To work one's way up from private soldier to commissioned officer
2. To become a self-made man or woman

rise to it or rise to the bait (figurative, from fishing)

To take the lure

rise to the occasion

To prove equal to an emergency

take a rise out of

To lure into reacting to provocation, or loosely, to make sport of

take rise

To originate

the rise of (US)

More than

• well-affected
• well-aimed
• well and good
• well and truly
• wellanear
• well-appointed
• well-appointedness
• well away
• wellaway
• well-balanced
• well-becoming
• well-behaved
• wellbeing
• wellbeings
• well-beloved
• well-beseeming
• well-beseen
• well boat
• well boats
• well-borer
• well-borers
• well-boring
• well-born
• well-breathed
• well-bred