promote vs raise

verb

To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
To elevate to a higher league.
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
To encourage, urge or incite.
To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

verb

To promote.
To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
To cause something to come to the surface of water.
To create, increase or develop.
To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
To open, initiate.
To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
To collect or amass.
To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
To bring up; to grow.
To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
To exponentiate, to involute.
To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

noun