Dictionary Entry
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
- 1verb
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.
- 2verb
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
- 3verb
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
- 4verb
To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
- 5verb
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.
- 6verb
To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
- 7verb
To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
- 8verb
To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
- 9verb
To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
- 10verb
To retire; to give up a siege.
- 11verb
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
- 12verb
To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
- 13verb
To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
- 14verb
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.
- 15verb
To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
- 16verb
To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
- 17verb
To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
- 18verb
To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
- 19verb
To become of higher value; to increase in price.
- 20verb
To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
- 21verb
To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
- 22verb
To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
- 23verb
To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
- 24verb
In various figurative senses.
- 25verb
To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- 26verb
To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
- 27verb
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.
- 28verb
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- 29verb
To come; to offer itself.
- 30verb
To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
- 31verb
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
- 32verb
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
- 33verb
To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
- 34noun
The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
- 35noun
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.
- 36noun
Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
- 37noun
Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
- 38noun
Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
- 39noun
Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
- 40noun
Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
- 41noun
Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
- 42noun
The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
- 43noun
the act of changing location in an upward direction
- 44noun
increase in price or value
"the news caused a general advance on the stock market"
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- 45noun
the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
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- 46noun
the amount a salary is increased
"he got a 3% raise"
"he got a wage hike"
- 47noun
an increase in cost
"they asked for a 10% rise in rates"
- 48noun
a growth in strength or number or importance
- 49noun
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
"the emanation of the Holy Spirit"
"the rising of the Holy Ghost"
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- 50noun
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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- 51noun
a movement upward
"they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- 52noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
"the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- 53verb
get up and out of bed
"I get up at 7 A.M. every day"
"They rose early"
- 54verb
return from the dead
"Christ is risen!"
"The dead are to uprise"
- 55verb
increase in value or to a higher point
"prices climbed steeply"
"the value of our house rose sharply last year"
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- 56verb
rise in rank or status
"Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
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- 57verb
become more extreme
"The tension heightened"
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- 58verb
go up or advance
"Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- 59verb
exert oneself to meet a challenge
"rise to a challenge"
"rise to the occasion"
- 60verb
become heartened or elated
"Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
- 61verb
move upward
"The fog lifted"
"The smoke arose from the forest fire"
- 62verb
move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
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- 63verb
come up, of celestial bodies
"The sun also rises"
"The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."
- 64verb
increase in volume
"the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
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- 65verb
rise to one's feet
"The audience got up and applauded"
- 66verb
come to the surface
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- 67verb
take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- 68verb
come into existence; take on form or shape
"A new religious movement originated in that country"
"a love that sprang up from friendship"
- 69verb
rise up
"The building rose before them"
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