raise
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(verb) raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread" |
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Related Words: bump up, increase |
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(verb) invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits", "lift his ego" |
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Synonyms: lift |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges" |
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Related Words: accent, accentuate, bring out, emphasize, set off, stress |
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(verb) multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3 |
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Related Words: multiply |
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(verb) establish radio communications with: "They managed to raise Hanoi last night" |
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Related Words: contact, get hold of, get through, reach |
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(noun) increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); "I'll see your raise and double it" |
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Related Words: double, doubling, gamble |
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(verb) activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny" |
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Related Words: incite, instigate, set off, stir up |
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(verb) cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry" |
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Related Words: bring forward, call up, express, give tongue to, utter |
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(verb) pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'" |
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Related Words: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say |
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(verb) put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic" |
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Synonyms: bring up |
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Related Words: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
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(verb) bet more than the previous player, in poker |
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Related Words: bet, wager |
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(verb) in bridge: bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level |
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Related Words: bid, call |
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(verb) evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance" |
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Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, stir |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" |
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Synonyms: erect, put up, rear, set up |
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Related Words: build, construct, make |
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Antonyms: level |
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(verb) create a disturbance, esp. by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain" |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
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Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, lift |
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Related Words: boost, chin, chin up, displace, erect, gather up, get up, heighten, hike, hike up, hoist, jack, jack up, kick up, leaven, lift, lift up, move, pick up, pinnacle, prove, pump, raise, rear, run up, shoulder, skid, trice, trice up, wind |
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Antonyms: lower |
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(verb) cause to puff up with a leaven; of dough; "unleavened bread" |
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Synonyms: leaven, prove |
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Related Words: bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise |
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(verb) collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college" |
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Related Words: collect, fund-raise, fundraise, take in |
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(noun) the amount a salary is increased; "he got a raise"; "he got a wage hike" |
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Synonyms: hike, rise |
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Related Words: increase, increment |
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(verb) cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected."; "Upraising ghosts" |
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Synonyms: resurrect, upraise |
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Related Words: resuscitate, revive |
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(noun) the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
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Synonyms: elevation, heave, lift |
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Related Words: actuation, propulsion |
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(verb) put an end to, as of a siege or a blockade; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" |
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Synonyms: lift |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) raise in rank or condition: "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
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Synonyms: elevate, lift |
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Related Words: alter, change, exalt |
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(verb) cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" |
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Synonyms: farm, grow, produce |
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Related Words: carry, cultivate, overproduce |
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(verb) move upwards; "lift one's eyes" |
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Synonyms: lift |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" |
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Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, rear |
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Related Words: cradle, fledge, foster |
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(verb) increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" |
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Synonyms: enhance, heighten |
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Related Words: compound, deepen, heighten, intensify |
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(verb) cause to assemble or enlist; "raise an army" |
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Synonyms: conscript, levy, recruit |
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Related Words: draft, enlist, muster in |
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(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade" |
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Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, rise, upgrade |
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Related Words: incline, side, slope, uphill |
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(verb) give a promotion to; "raise in rank"; assign to a higher position |
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Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade |
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Related Words: assign, brevet, bring up, delegate, depute, designate, ennoble, entitle, favor, favour, gentle, prefer, queen, spot promote, tenure |
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(verb) call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
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Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke |
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Related Words: anger, ask for, create, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, draw, excite, fire up, heat, hurt, ignite, infatuate, inflame, injure, interest, invite, make, offend, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, prick, rekindle, shake, shake up, shame, spite, stimulate, stir, stir up, sweep over, untune, upset, whelm, wound |
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