rise

noun

The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

(chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.

The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

The front of a diaper.

(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

(informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.

(architecture) The height of an arch or a step.

A surname.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”). [(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) An increase in salary or wages.]

Alternative form of rice (“twig”). [(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.]

verb

(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

To move upwards.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

To slope upward.

(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.

To become erect; to assume an upright position.

To leave one's bed; to get up.

(figurative) To be resurrected.

(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.

To attain a higher status.

Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.

(music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

(intransitive) To begin, to develop; to be initiated.

To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.

To develop, to come about or intensify.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).

To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).

To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.

(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.

To come; to offer itself.

(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

Synonyms for rise

uprisev ascendv ascentn climbv arisev raisev heightenv liftv uprear ascensionn growv scendv acclivityn jumpn hiken boostv upsurgen increasen soaringn upswingv declinen

Words related to rise

risenadj soaredv outsoar soarsn reascend acclivitousadj ascensiveadj skyrocketedv clomb higheradj skyrocketingv plummetv surgedv elevatedn resurrectv upwardadv uptickn declinern escalatingv

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