Rise Meaning and Definition

Word: Rise

How to pronounce: raɪz

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. Move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up.

Example sentences: "The tiny aircraft rose from the ground"

2. Get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling.

Example sentences: "She pushed back her chair and rose"

3. Cease to be submissive, obedient, or peaceful.

Example sentences: "The activists urged militant factions to rise up"

4. (of a river) have its source.

Example sentences: "The Euphrates rises in Turkey"

5. (of land or a feature following the contours of the land) incline upward; become higher.

Example sentences: "The moorlands rise and fall in gentle folds"

6. Increase in number, size, amount, or quality.

Example sentences: "Land prices had risen"

7. Approaching (a specified age)

Example sentences: "She was thirty-nine rising forty"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An upward movement; an instance of becoming higher.

Example sentences: "The bird has a display flight of steep flapping rises"

2. An increase in amount, extent, size, or number.

Example sentences: "Local people are worried by the rise in crime"

3. An increase in sound or pitch.

Example sentences: "The rise and fall of his voice"

4. A source or origin.

Synonyms:

grow

increase

soar

come up

boost

accumulate

hike

bourgeon

spring up

turn out

get up

arise

originate

develop

surge

upsurge

uptick

resurrect

sit up

raise

lift

ascension

uprise

upswing

ascent

upgrade

hill

acclivity

upturn

climb

move up

mount

rise up

uphill

ascending

up

advancement

raising

growing

growth

stature

accretion

accrual

boom

thrust

wax

revolt

go up

ascend

rebel

emergence

heave

elevation

eminence

altitudes

preferment

uplift

prominence

upland

highland

expansion

augmentation

increment

addition

increasing

jump

aspire

enlarge

swell

expand

multiply

altitude

height

promotion

advance

gain

more

billow

heighten

escalate

accelerate

proliferation

spread

proliferate

salary increase

creation

Antonyms:

decrease

fall

drop

go

fell

come down

reduce

never rise

descend

sit

finish

drop down

go to

sit down

reduction

sink

land

Derivations:

rising

risen

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Rise in Other Languages...

Spanish: Aumentar

German: Steigen

French: Augmenter

Italian: Sorgere

Turkish: Yükselme