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Rising

adjective

1.

Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status. "A rising market"

2.

Sloping upward. Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill.

3.

Coming to maturity. Synonym: emerging.

4.

Newly come into prominence.

noun

1.

A movement upward. Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise.

2.

Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another. Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising.

Rise

verb

(past rose; past part. risen; pres. part. rising)

1.

Move upward. Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, uprise. "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"

2.

Increase in value or to a higher point. Synonyms: climb, go up. "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

3.

Rise to one's feet. Synonyms: arise, get up, stand up, uprise.

4.

Rise up. Synonyms: lift, rear.

5.

Come to the surface. Synonyms: come up, rise up, surface.

6.

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, spring up, uprise. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7.

Move to a better position in life or to a better job. Synonyms: ascend, move up.

8.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, mount, wax.

9.

Become more extreme. Synonym: heighten.

10.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, turn out, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

11.

Rise in rank or status. Synonyms: climb up, jump.

12.

Become heartened or elated.

13.

Exert oneself to meet a challenge. "Rise to the occasion"

14.

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance. Synonyms: arise, rebel, rise up.

15.

Increase in volume. Synonym: prove.

16.

Come up, of celestial bodies. Synonyms: ascend, come up, uprise. "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"

17.

Return from the dead. Synonyms: resurrect, uprise. "The dead are to uprise"

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— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

... entering, he stumbled over the threshold. "Ya Amud el Din"— "0 Pillar of the Faith!" exclaimed a voice from the darkness, calling upon the patron saint of Hazramaut to save a Moslem from falling. "May the Pillar of the Faith break thy head," exclaimed the unpatriotic traveller, at once rising to resume ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... house by itself on the after deck of the ship. Noyes saw the pump-man call out the cook, and after a time, their voices rising, he heard, "Now, cookie, no more of that slush. Mind you, I'm wasting no time talking to the captain. I'm talking to you. We know that he slips you a little ten-spot every month for keeping down the grub bills; ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly

... had first come to him, five or six years ago, and was much attached to it. It was high up in the large block of buildings and its windows looked over the greys and greens and silvers of the park, the water shining in the midst, and the dim silhouettes of Whitehall rising in stately significance on the evening sky. Gregory went to the balcony and overhung his view contemplatively for a while. The fog had lifted, ...

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