Definitions for rise
  • Rise (v.) - To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
  • Rise (v.) - To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
  • Rise (v.) - To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
  • Rise (v.) - To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
  • Rise (v.) - To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
  • Rise (v.) - To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
  • Rise (v.) - To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
  • Rise (v.) - To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
  • Rise (v.) - To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
  • Rise (v.) - To retire; to give up a siege.
  • Rise (v.) - To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
  • Rise (v.) - To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
  • Rise (v.) - To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
  • Rise (v.) - To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
  • Rise (v.) - To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
  • Rise (v.) - To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
  • Rise (v.) - To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
  • Rise (v.) - To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
  • Rise (v.) - To become of higher value; to increase in price.
  • Rise (v.) - To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
  • Rise (v.) - To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
  • Rise (v.) - To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
  • Rise (v.) - To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
  • Rise (v.) - In various figurative senses.
  • Rise (v.) - To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
  • Rise (v.) - To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
  • Rise (v.) - To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
  • Rise (v.) - To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  • Rise (v.) - To come; to offer itself.
  • Rise (v.) - To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
  • Rise (v.) - To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
  • Rise (v.) - To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
  • Rise (v.) - To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
  • Rise (n.) - The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
  • Rise (n.) - The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
  • Rise (n.) - Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
  • Rise (n.) - Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
  • Rise (n.) - Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
  • Rise (n.) - Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
  • Rise (n.) - Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
  • Rise (n.) - Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
  • Rise (n.) - The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
  • Rises - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Rising (a.) - Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.
  • Rising (a.) - Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.
  • Rising (a.) - Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
  • Rising (prep.) - More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.
  • Rising (n.) - The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
  • Rising (n.) - That which rises; a tumor; a boil.
  • Rising (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Rise
  • Risings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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