[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. rise up
    The building rose before them
  2. exert oneself to meet a challenge
    rise to a challenge
    rise to the occasion
  3. come into existence; take on form or shape
    a love that sprang up from friendship
    An interesting phenomenon uprose
    A new religious movement originated in that country
    the idea for the book grew out of a short story
  4. come to the surface
  5. rise to one's feet
    The audience got up and applauded
  6. return from the dead
    Christ is risen!
    The dead are to uprise
  7. rise in rank or status
    Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list
  8. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
  9. go up or advance
    Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
  10. increase in volume
    the dough rose slowly in the warm room
  11. come up, of celestial bodies
    Jupiter ascends
    The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
    The sun also rises
  12. become heartened or elated
    Her spirits rose when she heard the good news
  13. get up and out of bed
    I get up at 7 A.M. every day
    He uprose at night
    They rose early
  14. increase in value or to a higher point
    prices climbed steeply
    the value of our house rose sharply last year
  15. become more extreme
    The tension heightened
  16. move upward
    The mist uprose from the meadows
    The fog lifted
    The smoke arose from the forest fire
  17. move to a better position in life or to a better job
    She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown
NOUN
  1. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
    the rising of the Holy Ghost
    the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son
    the emanation of the Holy Spirit
  2. a growth in strength or number or importance
  3. the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
  4. the amount a salary is increased
    he got a 3% raise
    he got a wage hike
  5. the act of changing location in an upward direction
  6. increase in price or value
    the news caused a general advance on the stock market
  7. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
    the car couldn't make it up the rise
  8. an increase in cost
    they asked for a 10% rise in rates
  9. a movement upward
    they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
  10. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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How To Use rise In A Sentence

  • One infers that all of this would be computerised information.
  • The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
  • She jumped back with a little yelp of surprise.
  • On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
  • Second, at the same time, I'm somewhat surprised and mildly appalled that this story hasn't generated a lot of buzz in the blogosphere.
  • They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
  • During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
  • Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
  • Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
  • You will be surprised at the power of muscle memory. Times, Sunday Times
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