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(v)
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
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To mention.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
(n)
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.
(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
To augment or make something greater.
(archaic) To raise something up; to elevate.
(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
(transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
(transitive) To make ready for use.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(transitive) To raise from the dead; to bring life back to.
(idiomatic, transitive) To propose for consideration.
(transitive) To place in a high location.
(transitive) To summon, to call to speak.
(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
(transitive) To enroll compulsorily; to draft; to induct.
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
(ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
(transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.
(transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
(transitive) To pray for; to request from God.
(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
(transitive) To evoke.
(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
(transitive) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
(archaic, transitive) To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
(transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
(adj)
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
(transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
(transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
Having had an upgrade; having been improved or enhanced.
The process by which something is upgraded.
(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
(intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
On the increase.
(transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
The act by which something is heightened or increased.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
Increased in intensity or concentration; elevated.
The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
Raised, usually above ground level.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
In a version or form that has been improved or made better than some other standard form.
Raised up; held aloft.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction)
(transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
(transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To make (something) larger.
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
That has been made better; enhanced.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
The process by which something is strengthened.
(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.
(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(transitive) To make wide or wider.