rise to the bait

To do what someone else intends or suggests one should do

rise /rīz/

intransitive verb (pat rose /rōz/, Scot raise or rase /rāz/, US dialect riz; pap risen /rizˈn/, US dialect riz)

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)

transitive verb

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

noun

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

adjective

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)

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