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(v)
(intransitive) To move upwards.
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(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To draw (something) along as a current does.
(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(n)
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
(intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
A hill or mountain.
(intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
(archaic) To raise something up; to elevate.
A sudden strong rise or flow.
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
(intransitive) To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(intransitive) To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
An upward thrust.
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
(transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
(transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
(ambitransitive) To ascend again.
To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
(intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
(transitive) To pass beyond the limits of something.
(intransitive, US, Scotland) To ascend; climb up.
(transitive) to gradually ascend something
(idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
(literally, done to a thing) Raise or lift up.
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An outward appearance, especially pertaining to the future; a promising aspect or outlook.
(transitive) To elevate to a higher position.
(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
(ambitransitive, aviation, of a pilot) To successfully fly (an aircraft) into the air.
(adj)
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
(transitive) To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
(transitive) To raise up; to elevate.
(intransitive) To reach upward.
(transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
(transitive) To climb better or farther than.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility.
(transitive) To raise (put at a higher level)
(transitive, dialectal) To make high; heighten.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
(transitive) To rise higher than; to tower above.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.
To augment or make something greater.
(archaic, transitive) To mount above; to climb higher than or surpass.
(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
To originate.
(intransitive, rare) Obsolete spelling of arise. [(intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.]
(transitive) To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
(transitive, rare) To outdo; to surpass; to exceed.
(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
(intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
(transitive) To lift; to raise.
(intransitive, obsolete) To remain standing; continue; abide; persist; onstand.
The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
(archaic) To raise.
From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
To aspire again.
(computing) The process of mounting a drive or volume again.
A shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth, economic level, etc.
(idiomatic) To improve one's social or financial position.
(transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(transitive) To elevate again; to bring higher again.
To move toward the speaker.
(transitive) To climb again.
The act or result of uplifting (in various senses).
To try to get (something) by extending one's arm or moving one's hand.
(transitive) To give a superelevation to (a railway track).
(transitive) To change or transform (something).
(transitive) To write a draft of a document, plan, legislation or budget, usually a first draft.
(transitive) To make joyful or proud.
(transitive) To transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
(transitive, intransitive) To be broadcast (through a device), or (of a broadcast) to begin playing.
(transitive) To meet expectations.
(construction, plumbing) A section of a roof covering or flashing which turns up against a vertical surface.
A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
(transitive, poetic) To tower above; to loom.
(transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
(dated, idiomatic) To originate
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.