noun
- A movement upward.
- usage: "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
- synonyms: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, uprising
verb
- Move upward.
- usage: "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- Increase in value or to a higher point.
- usage: "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
- Rise to one's feet.
- usage: "The audience got up and applauded"
- Rise up.
- usage: "The building rose before them"
- Come to the surface.
- Come into existence; take on form or shape.
- usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
- Move to a better position in life or to a better job."She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- Go up or advance.
- usage: "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- Become more extreme.
- usage: "The tension heightened"
- Get up and out of bed.
- usage: "I get up at 7 A. M. Every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
- Rise in rank or status.
- usage: "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
- Become heartened or elated.
- usage: "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
- synonyms: rise
- Exert oneself to meet a challenge.
- usage: "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
- synonyms: rise
- Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance.
- Increase in volume.
- usage: "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
- Come up, of celestial bodies.
- usage: "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- Return from the dead.
- usage: "Christ is risen"; "The dead are to uprise"
adjective
- Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status.
- usage: "a rising trend"; "a rising market"
- Sloping upward.
- synonyms: acclivitous, uphill
- Coming to maturity.
- usage: "the rising generation"
- synonyms: emerging
- Newly come into prominence.
- usage: "a rising young politician"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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