Word: rise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, rise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, spring”). See also raise. Cognates Cognate with Dutch rijzen (“to rise”), German reisen (“to fall”), Limburgish rieze (“to rise”), Faroese and Icelandic rísa (“to rise”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa, rise (“to rise”), Gothic *𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (*reisan, “to rise”) (whence 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”)). Non-Germanic cognates include Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin orior (“to rise”), Ancient Greek ἔρις (éris, “quarell, strife; contention, rivalry”) (whence Greek έριδα (érida, “feud”)), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Bulgarian ръст (rǎst, “size; stature; growth”), Czech růst (“growth”), Macedonian раст (rast, “growth, height”), Polish rost, wzrost (“growth”), Russian рост (rost, “growth”), Serbo-Croatian ра̑ст, rȃst (“growth”), Slovene rȃst (“growth”), Old Armenian յառնեմ (yaṙnem, “to arise, rise”) (whence Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to rise up”)), Persian رمبیدن (rombidan, “to collapse”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke”), Hittite 𒀀𒊏𒀀𒄑𒍣 (arāwanzi, “to rise”), Sanskrit ऋ (ṛ, “to rise”). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪz/, /ɹaɪs/ 1. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: We watched the balloon rise. Example: Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops. 2. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet. 3. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill. 4. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. Example: The sun was rising in the East. 5. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: to rise from a chair or from a fall 6. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: intransitive Example: Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair, In the morning, when we rise 7. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: he rose from the grave; he is risen! 8. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The committee rose after agreeing to the report. Example: It was near nine[…]before the House rose. 9. To increase in value or standing. Labels: intransitive Example: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Example: among the rising theologians of Germany 10. To increase in value or standing. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 11. To increase in value or standing. Labels: intransitive Example: to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. Example: 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. 12. To increase in value or standing. Labels: intransitive Example: to rise a tone or semitone 13. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: to rise to the occasion Example: Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered. 14. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island. Example: 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; […] 15. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: Has that dough risen yet? 16. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 17. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower 18. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection. Example: No more ſhall nation againſt nation riſe, / Nor ardent vvarriours meet vvith hateful eyes, […] 19. To begin, to develop; to be initiated. Labels: intransitive Example: A thought rose in me, which I believe very often perplexes […]men of contemplative natures. 20. To go up; to ascend; to climb. Labels: transitive Example: to rise a hill 21. To cause to go up or ascend. Labels: transitive Example: to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water Example: to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it 22. To retire; to give up a siege. Labels: obsolete Example: He,[…] rising with small honour from Gunza,[…]was gone. 23. To come; to offer itself. Example: There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, / An auncient booke, […] 24. To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form. Labels: dated Example: 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.