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