raise vs rise

raise

verb
  • To cause to rise; to lift or elevate. 

  • 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 promote. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A bet that increases the previous bet. 

  • A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. 

  • A cairn or pile of stones. 

  • A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. 

rise

verb
  • To cause to go up or ascend. 

  • To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus. 

  • To leave one's bed; to get up. 

  • To attain a higher status. 

  • To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. 

  • To have its source (in a particular place). 

  • Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. 

  • To develop. 

  • To become erect; to assume an upright position. 

  • To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. 

  • To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch. 

  • To be resurrected. 

  • To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. 

  • To slope upward. 

  • To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. 

  • To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. 

  • To go up; to ascend; to climb. 

  • To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. 

  • To come; to offer itself. 

  • To move upwards. 

  • To grow upward; to attain a certain height. 

  • To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. 

noun
  • An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope. 

  • The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. 

  • A small hill; used chiefly in place names. 

  • A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. 

  • An increase in a quantity, price, etc. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. 

  • The height of an arch or a step. 

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