An increase in intensity, volume, or pitch. The height of a flight of stairs or of a single riser. The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear. These verbs mean to move upward from a lower to a higher position. The sun rises early in the summer.
Prices rise and fall.
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