rise
About 64.55 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. To move upwards.
We watched the balloon rise.
- verb To move upwards.
We watched the balloon rise.
- verb To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
- verb To slope upward.
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
- verb To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
The sun was rising in the East.
- verb To become erect; to assume an upright position.
to rise from a chair or from a fall
- verb To leave one's bed; to get up.
- verb To be resurrected.
he rose from the grave; he is risen!
Similar words
rise up ascending ascent lift ascension arise upgrade boost climb up climb
Often followed by
to of in and from up above again at
Word family
risen rises rising rose
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