raising
raising is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Raise. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- present participle. of Raise
- noun. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
- noun. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
- noun. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- noun. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
"they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
- noun. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- noun. the event of something being raised upward
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"
"a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
- adjective. increasing in quantity or value
"a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"
Synonyms
breeding, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing, elevation, lift
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