rise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīz
ipa: /ɹaɪz/
homophone: ryes
homophone: wries
rhymes: -aɪz
ipa: /ɹaɪs/
Forms: form: rises
form: rising
form: rose
form: risen
form: rised
form: rose
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: rise
form: rise
form: rose
form: rise
form: risest
form: rose
form: rosest
form: rises
form: riseth
form: rose
form: rise
form: rose
form: rise
form: rose
form: rise
form: -
form: rising
form: risen
form: rised
form: rose
Etymology: From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). See also raise.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian rize, Saterland Frisian riese (“to arise”), Dutch rijzen (“to rise, ascend, lift”), German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”), German dialectal reisen (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa (“to rise”), Icelandic rísa (“to rise”). Related also to German reisen (“to travel, fare”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), Danish rejse (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rris (“I raise, grow”) and Russian рост (rost, “growth”).
Senses: examples: text: We watched the balloon rise.
text: Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops.
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To move upwards.
examples: text: This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
examples: text: The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To slope upward.
examples: text: And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: The sun was rising in the East.
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
raw_tags: of a celestial body
examples: text: to rise from a chair or from a fall
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
examples: text: Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise
ref: 1965, “Colours”, performed by Donovan:
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
examples: text: he rose from the grave;   he is risen!
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To be resurrected.
examples: text: The committee rose after agreeing to the report.
text: It was near nine[…]before the House rose.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
examples: text: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: among the rising theologians of Germany
ref: 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:
text: Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello is a hoodlum who rises swiftly in Chicago’s mob world, in the 1931 film “Little Caesar.” Played by Edward G. Robinson, Rico is tracked down by police and shot.
ref: 2023 August 20, Richard Galant, “Opinion: A powerful weapon for prosecutors is now in the hands of Fani Willis”, in CNN:
glosses: To increase in value or standing.
To attain a higher status.
examples: text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
glosses: To increase in value or standing.
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
examples: text: to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To increase in value or standing.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
examples: text: to rise a tone or semitone
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To increase in value or standing.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
examples: text: to rise to the occasion
text: Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
text: As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
text: Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
examples: text: As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.
text: To-night the winds begin to rise
⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:
⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To develop, to come about or intensify.
examples: text: Has that dough risen yet?
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
examples: text: The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14ʹ south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
ref: 1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register, Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14), page 396
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To have its source (in a particular place).
raw_tags: of a river
examples: text: a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
examples: text: At our heels all hell should rise
 With blackest insurrection.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: No more ſhall nation againſt nation riſe, / Nor ardent vvarriours meet vvith hateful eyes, […]
ref: 1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
examples: text: A thought rose in me, which I believe very often perplexes […]men of contemplative natures.
ref: 1714 July 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, July 9, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 565; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
examples: text: to rise a hill
glosses: To go up; to ascend; to climb.
examples: text: to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
text: to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
text: Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.
ref: 1882, William Clark Russell, My Watch Below:
glosses: To cause to go up or ascend.
examples: text: He,[…] rising with small honour from Gunza,[…]was gone.
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To retire; to give up a siege.
examples: text: There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, / An auncient booke, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59:
glosses: To come; to offer itself.
examples: text: One side of the form is now to be lifted from the stone just enough to allow the compositor to see whether it will rise or not but not so high as to let any loose letters drop out.
ref: 1872, Thomas Lynch, The Printer's Manual: A Practical Guide for Compositors and Pressmen, page 134:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Synonyms: sense: move upwards
word: climb
sense: move upwards
word: go up
sense: leave one's bed
word: arise
word: get up
word: wake
sense: be resurrected
word: be resurrected
sense: be resurrected
word: come back from the dead
sense: of a quantity, etc: to increase
word: climb
word: increase
word: go up
Coordinate terms: raise
Derived terms: arise
a rising tide lifts all boats
God willing and the creek don't rise
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
rise above
rise and shine
rise from one's grave
rise from the ashes
rise from the dead
rise from the grave
rise over run
rise through the ranks
rise to the bait
rise to the challenge
rise to the occasion
rise to the purple
rise up
rise with the lark
rise with the sun
rising action
rising damp
rising lark
rising line
rising main
rising of the lights
rising of the moon
rising seat
rising star
rising three
salt-rising bread
self-rising
self-rising flour
sitting-rising test
sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow
sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning
uprise
uprising