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[rʌɪz], (Verb)
Definitions:
- move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up
(e.g: the tiny aircraft rose from the ground)
- get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling
(e.g: she pushed back her chair and rose)
- cease to be submissive, obedient, or peaceful
(e.g: the activists urged militant factions to rise up)
- (of a river) have its source
(e.g: the Euphrates rises in Turkey)
- (of land or a natural feature) incline upwards; become higher
(e.g: the moorlands rise and fall in gentle folds)
- increase in number, size, amount, or degree
(e.g: land prices had risen)
- approaching (a specified age)
(e.g: she was thirty-nine rising forty)
Phrases:
- get a rise out of
- on the rise
- rise and shine
- rise with the sun
- someone's star is rising
Origin
:
Old English rīsan ‘make an attack’, ‘wake, get out of bed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rijzen and German reisen
[rʌɪz], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an upward movement; an instance of rising
(e.g: the bird has a display flight of steep flapping rises)
- an increase in number, size, amount, or degree
(e.g: local people are worried by the rise in crime)
- an increase in sound or pitch
(e.g: the rise and fall of his voice)
- a source or origin
(e.g: it was here that the brook had its rise)
Phrases:
- get a rise out of
- on the rise
- rise and shine
- rise with the sun
- someone's star is rising
Origin
:
Old English rīsan ‘make an attack’, ‘wake, get out of bed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rijzen and German reisen
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