The Meaning of raise

• (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
• (v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
• (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
• (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
• (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
• (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
• (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
• (v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
• (v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
• (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
• (v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
• (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
• (v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
• (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
• (v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
• (v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
• (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
• (v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
• (v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
• (v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.

Synonyms

rise , wage hike , hike , wage increase , salary increase , ascent , acclivity , rise , climb , upgrade , lift , heave , lift , elevate , get up , bring up , grow , farm , produce , rear , bring up , nurture , parent , conjure , conjure up , invoke , evoke , stir , call down , arouse , bring up , put forward , call forth , lift , erect , rear , set up , put up , arouse , elicit , enkindle , kindle , evoke , fire , provoke , lift , elevate , enhance , heighten , promote , upgrade , advance , kick upstairs , elevate , leaven , prove , recruit , levy , bring up , lift , lift , resurrect , upraise

Antonyms

descent , lower , level , demote

Homophones

rase , ray's , raze , re's , res

Rhymes

ablaze , allays , always , amaze , anyways , appraise , arrays , baise , baize , ballets , bayes , bays , bayse , baze , berets , betrays , blaise , blaize , blase , blayze , blaze , bouquets , braise , brase , brays , braze , cabernets , caches , cafes , cayes , chaise , chalets , chevrolets , claes , claeys , clays , communiques , crase , crays , craze , dais , daise , days , daze , decays , defrays , delays , delhaize , delosreyes , deshaies , dismays , dismutase , dossiers , edgeways , essays , faze , filets , folkways , fraise , frase , frays , fraze , fridays , fuentes , fuentez , gase , gaze , glaze , grays , graze , hallways , hase , hayes , hays , hayse , haze , inaez , indosuez , invirase , jays , kase , kayes , lais , lase , lays , leis , lengthways , lescaze , leys , lyonnais , lyonnaise , maes , maize , malaise , mayes , mayonnaise , mays , mayse , maze , mondays , morays , mores , nase , nays , nowadays , obeys , okays , oles , pais , paiz , paraphrase , pays , phase , phrase , plays , polonaise , polyphase , praise , prase , prays , preys , protease , rase , raze , reappraise , relays , rephrase , replays , res , sais , saiz , shays , shlaes , sideways , skase , slays , smaze , strays , streptokinase , sundays , surveys , sways , swayze , tays , todays , trays , tuesdays , ukase , urokinase , wais , ways , weekdays , weighs , yeas