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Rising

adjective

1.

Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status. "A rising market"

2.

Sloping upward. Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill.

3.

Coming to maturity. Synonym: emerging.

4.

Newly come into prominence.

noun

1.

A movement upward. Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise.

2.

Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another. Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising.

Rise

verb

(past rose; past part. risen; pres. part. rising)

1.

Move upward. Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, uprise. "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"

2.

Increase in value or to a higher point. Synonyms: climb, go up. "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

3.

Rise to one's feet. Synonyms: arise, get up, stand up, uprise.

4.

Rise up. Synonyms: lift, rear.

5.

Come to the surface. Synonyms: come up, rise up, surface.

6.

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, spring up, uprise. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7.

Move to a better position in life or to a better job. Synonyms: ascend, move up.

8.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, mount, wax.

9.

Become more extreme. Synonym: heighten.

10.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, turn out, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

11.

Rise in rank or status. Synonyms: climb up, jump.

12.

Become heartened or elated.

13.

Exert oneself to meet a challenge. "Rise to the occasion"

14.

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance. Synonyms: arise, rebel, rise up.

15.

Increase in volume. Synonym: prove.

16.

Come up, of celestial bodies. Synonyms: ascend, come up, uprise. "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"

17.

Return from the dead. Synonyms: resurrect, uprise. "The dead are to uprise"

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"Rising" Quotes from Famous Books

... cruelties And a thousand such examples. For, it seemeth that as the sea-billowes and surging waves, rage and storme against the surly pride and stubborne height of our buildings, so are there above, certaine spirits that envie the rising prosperities and ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... violent emotion, and rising from his feet, at which I had thrown myself, I leant against a tree, wildly raising my eyes to heaven. He began to answer with violence: "Yes, yes, I hate you! You are my bane, my poison, my disgust! Oh! No[!]" And then his manner changed, ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... his turn, had become irritable, timorous as a girl, subject to outbreaks of almost insane rage. To Kakusuke the young man seemed to have lost all nerve. Kakusuke wanted to serve a man. As long as the Wakadono gave promise of redemption, of rising above his difficulties and emerging into a splendid career in which Kakusuke could take pride, the chu[u]gen was ready to take the bitter with the sweet. To be maid servant and keeper of a man half mad had no attraction for this blunt-nerved fellow. ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... you're pretty much interested in it, though," commented the boy, rising from the bunk and taking a seat ...

— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher

... is blessed, Wherein I hearken Love's mysterious lay, And hold with thee communion in my heart. That thou art beautiful, thou who art mine— That with thy beauty, Beauty's soul divine Has filled my soul, I muse upon apart. In the blue dome of Heaven's eternity, Rising I seem upborne by thoughts ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

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