Rise

/ɹaɪz/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
2. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
3. (intransitive) To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
4. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
5. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
6. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
7. To come; to offer itself.
8. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

Example Sentences

to rise a hill

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

Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.

He,[…] rising with small honour from Gunza,[…]was gone.

There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, / An auncient booke, […]

One side of the form is now to be lifted from the stone just enough to allow the compositor to see whether it will rise or not but not so high as to let any loose letters drop out.

The rise of the tide.

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Word Forms

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• rising
• rose
• risen
• rised
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• risest
• rosest
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