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1. Move upward
   - lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
    
2. Increase in value or to a higher point
   "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
   - go up, climb
    
3. Rise to one's feet
   - arise, uprise, get up, stand up
    
4. Rise up
   "The building rose before them"
   - lift, rear
    
5. Come to the surface
   - surface, come up, rise up
    
6. Come into existence; take on form or shape
   - originate, arise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
    
7. Move to a better position in life or to a better job
   - ascend, move up
    
8. Go up or advance
   - wax, mount, climb
    
9. Become more extreme
   - heighten
    
10. Get up and out of bed
    "They rose early"
    - get up, turn out, arise, uprise
     
11. Rise in rank or status
    - jump, climb up
     
12. Become heartened or elated
    "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
     
13. Exert oneself to meet a challenge
    "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
     
14. Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
    - rebel, arise, rise up
     
15. Increase in volume
    "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
    - prove
     
16. Come up, of celestial bodies
    "The sun also rises"
    - come up, uprise, ascend
     
17. Return from the dead
    - resurrect, uprise

1. A growth in strength or number or importance
    
2. The act of changing location in an upward direction
   - ascent, ascension, ascending
    
3. An upward slope or grade (as in a road)
   "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
   - ascent, acclivity, raise, climb, upgrade [N. Amer]
    
4. A movement upward
   "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
   - rising, ascent, ascension
    
5. The amount a salary is increased
   - raise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
    
6. The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
   - upgrade [N. Amer], rising slope
    
7. A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
   - lift
    
8. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
   - emanation, procession
    
9. An increase in cost
   "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"
   - boost, hike, cost increase
    
10. Increase in price or value
    - advance

Sounds like: ryes

Derived forms: risen, rose, rising, rises

See also: riser, rising

Type of: appear, ascend, become, change, change of location, change posture, dissent, emergence, go, go up, grade [N. Amer], grow, growth, inception, incline, increase, increment, locomote, look, motion, move, movement, moving ridge, origin, origination, outgrowth, protest, resist, return, seem, side, slope, step-up, tackle, take on, travel, undertake, wave

Antonym: fall, set

Encyclopedia: Rise Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire