Definition of rise

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Rise (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion..

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Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
Agrise :: Agrise (v. t.) To terrify; to affright.
Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
Up :: Up (adv.) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up..
Antinomy :: Antinomy (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience..
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush..
Devil :: Devil (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation..
Apprise :: Apprise (n.) Notice; information.
Triseralous :: Triseralous (a.) Having three sepals, or calyx leaves..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..
Mesprise :: Mesprise (n.) Misadventure; ill-success.
Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air..
Calorificient :: Calorificient (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation..
Subtilization :: Subtilization (n.) The operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.
Climax :: Climax (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
Wonder :: Wonder (n.) That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement..
Apprise :: Apprise (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done..
Rear :: Rear (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect..
Ambush :: Ambush (v. i.) To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk..
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