raise
/ɹeɪz/ verb A2- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate. · to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself· the flag was raised
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect. · to raise a wall, or a heap of stones
- To cause something to come to the surface of water. · The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it. · to raise Sandy Hook light
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect. · The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
Plural raise · He/she/it raises · Past raised · Past participle raised · -ing form raising
Verb forms
- Base form
- raise
- He/she/it
- raises
- Past
- raised
- Past participle
- raised
- -ing form
- raising
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
The old father and Mercédès remained for some time apart, each absorbed in grief; but at length the two poor victims of the same blow raised their eyes, and with a simultaneous burst of feeling rushed into each other’s arms.
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.
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