raise
Noun
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subtypes: uphill - the upward slope of a hill
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referred to in: poker, poker game - any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking handis a type of: gamble - a risky act or venture
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is a type of: actuation, propulsion - the act of propelling
Verb
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is a type of: increase - make bigger or moresubtypes: bump up - increase or raise
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes:
- get up - cause to rise
- jack, jack up - lift with a special device
- shoulder - lift onto one's shoulders
- kick up - cause to rise by kicking
- hoist, lift, wind - raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- trice, trice up - raise with a line
- hoist, run up - raise
- hoist - move from one place to another by lifting
- pump - raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- levitate - cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity
- underlay - raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type
- skid - elevate onto skids
- pinnacle - raise on or as if on a pinnacle
- chin, chin up - raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
- leaven, prove, raise - cause to puff up with a leaven
- heighten - increase the height of
- boost, hike, hike up - increase
- gather up, lift up, pick up - take and lift upward
- erect, rear - cause to rise up
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is a type of: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize - articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noisesubtypes: bring forward, call up - bring forward for consideration
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referred to in: agriculture, farming, husbandry - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stockis a type of: cultivate - foster the growth ofsubtypes:
- carry - bear (a crop)
- overproduce - produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted
- keep - raise
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causes: grow up - become an adultsubtypes:
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subtypes:
- anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- bless - give a benediction to
same as: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, stir -
is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesame as: lift
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referred to in: building, construction - the act of constructing something
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subtypes:
- strike a chord, touch a chord - evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
- ask for, invite - increase the likelihood of
- draw - elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- rekindle - arouse again
- infatuate - arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
- prick - to cause a sharp emotional pain
- fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake - arouse or excite feelings and passions
- excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- excite - arouse or elicit a feeling
- anger - make angry
- discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset - cause to lose one's composure
- shame - cause to be ashamed
- bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound - hurt the feelings of
- overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
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subtypes: potentiate - increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
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is a type of: assign, delegate, depute, designate - give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)subtypes:
- tenure - give life-time employment to
- bring up - promote from a lower position or rank
- spot promote - promote on the spot
- ennoble, entitle, gentle - give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
- favor, favour, prefer - promote over another
- brevet - promote somebody by brevet, in the military
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referred to in: bridge - any of various card games based on whist for four players
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same as: bring up
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referred to in: arithmetic - the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculationsis a type of: multiply - combine by multiplication
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same as: lift
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same as: lift
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is a type of: resuscitate, revive - cause to regain consciousness
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- Verbs of feeling
- Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
- Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
- Verbs of political and social activities and events
- Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
- Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
- Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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