rise

rise is a 4-letter English word with 69 senses as verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 69 senses

Definitions

1. verb. 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.
2. verb. To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
3. verb. To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
4. verb. To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
5. verb. 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.
6. verb. To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
7. verb. To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
8. verb. To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
9. verb. To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
10. verb. To retire; to give up a siege.
11. verb. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
12. verb. To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
13. verb. To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
14. verb. 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.
15. verb. To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
16. verb. To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
17. verb. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
18. verb. To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
19. verb. To become of higher value; to increase in price.
20. verb. To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
21. verb. To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
22. verb. To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
23. verb. To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
24. verb. In various figurative senses.
25. verb. To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
26. verb. To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
27. verb. 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.
28. verb. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
29. verb. To come; to offer itself.
30. verb. To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
31. verb. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
32. verb. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
33. verb. To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
34. noun. The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
35. noun. 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.
36. noun. Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
37. noun. Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
38. noun. Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
39. noun. Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
40. noun. Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
41. noun. Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
42. noun. The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
43. noun. the act of changing location in an upward direction

    Synonyms: ascending, ascension, ascent

44. noun. increase in price or value

    "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"

    Synonyms: advance

45. noun. the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

    Synonyms: upgrade

46. noun. the amount a salary is increased

    "he got a 3% raise"

    "he got a wage hike"

    Synonyms: hike, raise

47. noun. an increase in cost

    "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"

    Synonyms: boost, hike

48. noun. a growth in strength or number or importance
49. noun. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

    "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"

    "the rising of the Holy Ghost"

    Synonyms: emanation, procession

50. noun. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

    Synonyms: lift

51. noun. a movement upward

    "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

    Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rising

52. noun. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

    "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

    Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, upgrade

53. verb. get up and out of bed

    "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"

    "They rose early"

    Synonyms: arise, uprise

54. verb. return from the dead

    "Christ is risen!"

    "The dead are to uprise"

    Synonyms: resurrect, uprise

55. verb. increase in value or to a higher point

    "prices climbed steeply"

    "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

    Synonyms: climb

56. verb. rise in rank or status

    "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

    Synonyms: jump

57. verb. become more extreme

    "The tension heightened"

    Synonyms: heighten

58. verb. go up or advance

    "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

    Synonyms: climb, mount, wax

59. verb. exert oneself to meet a challenge

    "rise to a challenge"

    "rise to the occasion"

60. verb. become heartened or elated

    "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"

61. verb. move upward

    "The fog lifted"

    "The smoke arose from the forest fire"

    Synonyms: arise, lift, uprise

62. verb. move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great

    Synonyms: ascend

63. verb. come up, of celestial bodies

    "The sun also rises"

    "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."

    Synonyms: ascend, uprise

64. verb. increase in volume

    "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"

    Synonyms: prove

65. verb. rise to one's feet

    "The audience got up and applauded"

    Synonyms: arise, uprise

66. verb. come to the surface

    Synonyms: surface

67. verb. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

    Synonyms: arise, rebel

68. verb. come into existence; take on form or shape

    "A new religious movement originated in that country"

    "a love that sprang up from friendship"

    Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, uprise

69. verb. rise up

    "The building rose before them"

    Synonyms: lift, rear

Synonyms

ascending, ascension, ascent, advance, upgrade, hike, raise, boost, emanation, procession, lift, rising, acclivity, climb, arise, uprise, resurrect, jump, heighten, mount, wax, ascend, prove, surface

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rise:

eris, ires, reis, ries, seri, sier, sire

Common word forms

riser, rises, rising

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