Rise (verb)
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
Rise (verb)
To move upwards.
“We watched the balloon rise.”
Rise (verb)
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
“This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.”
Rise (verb)
To slope upward.
“The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.”
Rise (verb)
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet’s rotation.
“The sun was rising in the East.”
Rise (verb)
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
“to rise from a chair or from a fall”
Rise (verb)
To leave one’s bed; to get up.
Rise (verb)
To be resurrected.
“he rose from the grave;”
“he is risen!”
Rise (verb)
To increase in value or standing.
Rise (verb)
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
“The committee rose after agreeing to the report.”
Rise (verb)
To attain a higher status.
Rise (verb)
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
Rise (verb)
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
“to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence;”
“a story rises in interest.”
Rise (verb)
To begin; to develop.
Rise (verb)
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
“to rise a tone or semitone”
Rise (verb)
To develop.
Rise (verb)
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
“Has that dough risen yet?”
Rise (verb)
To have its source (in a particular place).
Rise (verb)
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
“a noise rose on the air;”
“odour rises from the flower”
Rise (verb)
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
Rise (verb)
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
“to rise a hill”
Rise (verb)
To cause to go up or ascend.
“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”
Rise (verb)
To retire; to give up a siege.
Rise (verb)
To come; to offer itself.
Rise (verb)
To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Rise (noun)
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
“The rise of the tide.”
“There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.”
“Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.”
Rise (noun)
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
“The rise of the working class.”
“The rise of the printing press.”
“The rise of the feminists.”
Rise (noun)
An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
Rise (noun)
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
“The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.”
Rise (noun)
An increase in someone’s pay rate; a raise (US).
“The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.”
Rise (noun)
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
Rise (noun)
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
Rise (noun)
An angry reaction.
“I knew that would get a rise out of him.”
Arise (verb)
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
“to arise from a kneeling posture”
Arise (verb)
To come up from one’s bed or place of repose; to get up.
“He arose early in the morning.”
Arise (verb)
To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
“A cloud arose and covered the sun.”