| raising | | |
| n. (event) | 1. elevation, lift, raising | the event of something being raised upward.; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" |
| ~ rising, ascension, ascent, rise | a movement upward.; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. nurture, raising, rearing | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child. |
| ~ upbringing | properties acquired during a person's formative years. |
| n. (act) | 3. breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing | helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" |
| ~ acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture" |
| adj. | 4. raising | increasing in quantity or value.; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate" |
| ~ increasing | becoming greater or larger.; "increasing prices" |
| enhance | | |
| v. (change) | 1. enhance, heighten, raise | increase.; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" |
| ~ compound, deepen, intensify, heighten | make more intense, stronger, or more marked.; "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" |
| ~ potentiate | increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon).; "potentiate the drug" |
| v. (change) | 2. enhance | make better or more attractive.; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat" |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better | to make better.; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" |
| ~ follow up | increase the effectiveness or success of by further action.; "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation" |
| ~ touch up, retouch | alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance.; "This photograph has been retouched!" |
| extend | | |
| v. (change) | 1. broaden, extend, widen | extend in scope or range or area.; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard" |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| ~ broaden | make broader.; "broaden the road" |
| ~ territorialise, territorialize | extend by adding territory. |
| ~ globalise, globalize | make world-wide in scope or application.; "Markets are being increasingly globalized" |
| ~ expand, extend | expand the influence of.; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" |
| ~ stretch | extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly.; "Stretch the limits"; "stretch my patience"; "stretch the imagination" |
| v. (stative) | 2. extend, go, lead, pass, run | stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ come | extend or reach.; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles" |
| ~ ray, radiate | extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" |
| ~ range, run | change or be different within limits.; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull" |
| ~ go deep, go far | extend in importance or range.; "His accomplishments go far" |
| v. (stative) | 3. continue, cover, extend | span an interval of distance, space or time.; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles" |
| ~ cover | hold within range of an aimed firearm. |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ span, traverse, cross, sweep | to cover or extend over an area or time period.; "Rivers traverse the valley floor"; "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" |
| ~ sweep | cover the entire range of. |
| ~ overlap | extend over and cover a part of.; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city" |
| ~ overspread, spread | spread across or over.; "A big oil spot spread across the water" |
| ~ ridge | extend in ridges.; "The land ridges towards the South" |
| ~ constellate, dot, stud | scatter or intersperse like dots or studs.; "Hills constellated with lights" |
| v. (possession) | 4. extend, offer | make available; provide.; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages" |
| ~ offer, extend | offer verbally.; "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (body) | 5. exsert, extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out | thrust or extend out.; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting" |
| ~ hyperextend | extend a joint beyond its normal range.; "Don't hyperextend your elbow" |
| ~ gesticulate, gesture, motion | show, express or direct through movement.; "He gestured his desire to leave" |
| v. (stative) | 6. extend, poke out, reach out | reach outward in space.; "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| v. (possession) | 7. extend, offer | offer verbally.; "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy" |
| ~ pay, give | convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow.; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" |
| ~ extend, offer | make available; provide.; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages" |
| v. (body) | 8. extend, stretch | extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body.; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head" |
| ~ tense up, tense, strain | cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious.; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" |
| ~ spread-eagle | stretch out completely.; "They spread-eagled him across the floor" |
| ~ crane, stretch out | stretch (the neck) so as to see better.; "The women craned their necks to see the President drive by" |
| v. (change) | 9. expand, extend | expand the influence of.; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ extend, broaden, widen | extend in scope or range or area.; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard" |
| v. (change) | 10. draw out, extend, prolong, protract | lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" |
| ~ carry, extend | continue or extend.; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces" |
| ~ lengthen | make longer.; "Lengthen this skirt, please" |
| ~ extend | prolong the time allowed for payment of.; "extend the loan" |
| ~ temporise, temporize | draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time.; "The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote" |
| ~ spin out, spin | prolong or extend.; "spin out a visit" |
| v. (motion) | 11. extend, stretch, stretch out, unfold | extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna" |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| ~ extend | open or straighten out; unbend.; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?" |
| v. (motion) | 12. extend, gallop | cause to move at full gallop.; "Did you gallop the horse just now?" |
| ~ horseback riding, riding | travel by being carried on horseback. |
| ~ equitation, horseback riding, riding | the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements. |
| ~ ride, sit | sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions.; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" |
| v. (contact) | 13. extend | open or straighten out; unbend.; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?" |
| ~ straighten, straighten out | make straight. |
| ~ stretch out, stretch, unfold, extend | extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna" |
| v. (consumption) | 14. extend, strain | use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity.; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| ~ overextend, overstrain | strain excessively.; "He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment" |
| ~ task, tax | use to the limit.; "you are taxing my patience" |
| v. (change) | 15. extend | prolong the time allowed for payment of.; "extend the loan" |
| ~ carry, extend | continue or extend.; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces" |
| ~ prolong, protract, draw out, extend | lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" |
| v. (change) | 16. carry, extend | continue or extend.; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces" |
| ~ continue | exist over a prolonged period of time.; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks" |
| ~ prolong, protract, draw out, extend | lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" |
| ~ extend | prolong the time allowed for payment of.; "extend the loan" |
| v. (change) | 17. extend, stretch | increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice" |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| ~ adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.; "adulterate liquor" |
| promote | | |
| v. (social) | 1. advance, boost, encourage, further, promote | contribute to the progress or growth of.; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" |
| ~ connive at, wink at | give one's silent approval to. |
| ~ foster, further | promote the growth of.; "Foster our children's well-being and education" |
| ~ spur | incite or stimulate.; "The Academy was formed to spur research" |
| ~ help | contribute to the furtherance of.; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries" |
| ~ carry | take further or advance.; "carry a cause" |
| ~ feed | support or promote.; "His admiration fed her vanity" |
| ~ conduce, contribute, lead | be conducive to.; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" |
| ~ back up, support | give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to.; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up" |
| v. (social) | 2. advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ assign, delegate, designate, depute | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| ~ tenure | give life-time employment to.; "She was tenured after she published her book" |
| ~ bring up | promote from a lower position or rank.; "This player was brought up to the major league" |
| ~ spot promote | promote on the spot.; "Supreme Bishop Digby had been spot-promoted to Archangel" |
| ~ ennoble, gentle, entitle | give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility. |
| ~ favor, favour, prefer | promote over another.; "he favors his second daughter" |
| ~ brevet | promote somebody by brevet, in the military. |
| v. (communication) | 3. advertise, advertize, promote, push | make publicity for; try to sell (a product).; "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" |
| ~ praise | express approval of.; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance" |
| ~ propagandise, propagandize | spread by propaganda. |
| ~ plug | make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote. |
| ~ bill | advertise especially by posters or placards.; "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso" |
| ~ crusade, campaign, agitate, fight, push, press | exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" |
| ~ crusade, campaign, agitate, fight, push, press | exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" |
| v. (competition) | 4. promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
| ~ board game | a game played on a specially designed board. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ promote | change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent. |
| ~ queen | become a queen.; "her pawn queened" |
| v. (competition) | 5. promote | change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent. |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ play | use or move.; "I had to play my queen" |
| ~ promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
| ~ queen | promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess. |
| raise | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. hike, raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase | the amount a salary is increased.; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" |
| ~ increment, increase | the amount by which something increases.; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare" |
| n. (object) | 2. acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade | an upward slope or grade (as in a road).; "the car couldn't make it up the rise" |
| ~ incline, slope, side | an elevated geological formation.; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" |
| ~ uphill | the upward slope of a hill. |
| n. (act) | 3. raise | increasing the size of a bet (as in poker).; "I'll see your raise and double it" |
| ~ poker game, poker | any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand. |
| ~ gamble | a risky act or venture. |
| ~ doubling, double | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2.; "I decided his double was a bluff" |
| n. (act) | 4. heave, lift, raise | the act of raising something.; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
| ~ actuation, propulsion | the act of propelling. |
| v. (change) | 5. raise | raise the level or amount of something.; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread" |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| ~ bump up | increase or raise.; "OPEC bumped up the price of oil" |
| v. (motion) | 6. bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise | raise from a lower to a higher position.; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
| ~ get up | cause to rise.; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M." |
| ~ jack, jack up | lift with a special device.; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" |
| ~ shoulder | lift onto one's shoulders. |
| ~ kick up | cause to rise by kicking.; "kick up dust" |
| ~ hoist, wind, lift | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" |
| ~ trice, trice up | raise with a line.; "trice a window shade" |
| ~ run up, hoist | raise.; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" |
| ~ hoist | move from one place to another by lifting.; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ pump | raise (gases or fluids) with a pump. |
| ~ levitate | cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.; "The magician levitated the woman" |
| ~ go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise | move upward.; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" |
| ~ underlay | raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type.; "underlay the plate" |
| ~ skid | elevate onto skids. |
| ~ pinnacle | raise on or as if on a pinnacle.; "He did not want to be pinnacled" |
| ~ chin, chin up | raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar. |
| ~ leaven, prove, raise | cause to puff up with a leaven.; "unleavened bread" |
| ~ heighten | increase the height of.; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars" |
| ~ boost, hike, hike up | increase.; "The landlord hiked up the rents" |
| ~ gather up, lift up, pick up | take and lift upward. |
| ~ erect, rear | cause to rise up. |
| v. (communication) | 7. raise | cause to be heard or known; express or utter.; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry" |
| ~ give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" |
| ~ call up, bring forward | bring forward for consideration.; "The case was called up in court" |
| v. (possession) | 8. raise | collect funds for a specific purpose.; "The President raised several million dollars for his college" |
| ~ fund-raise, fund raise, fundraise | raise money for a cause or project.; "We are fundraising for AIDS research" |
| ~ collect, take in | call for and obtain payment of.; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" |
| v. (creation) | 9. farm, grow, produce, raise | cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques.; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" |
| ~ farming, husbandry, agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. |
| ~ carry | bear (a crop).; "this land does not carry olives" |
| ~ overproduce | produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted. |
| ~ cultivate | foster the growth of. |
| ~ keep | raise.; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees" |
| v. (social) | 10. bring up, nurture, parent, raise, rear | bring up.; "raise a family"; "bring up children" |
| ~ fledge | feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight. |
| ~ cradle | bring up from infancy. |
| ~ grow up | become an adult. |
| ~ foster | bring up under fosterage; of children. |
| v. (creation) | 11. arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir | summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" |
| ~ anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict, curse | wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.; "The bad witch cursed the child" |
| ~ bless | give a benediction to.; "The dying man blessed his son" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke | evoke or provoke to appear or occur.; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" |
| v. (motion) | 12. lift, raise | move upwards.; "lift one's eyes" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise | move upward.; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" |
| v. (creation) | 13. erect, put up, raise, rear, set up | construct, build, or erect.; "Raise a barn" |
| ~ construction, building | the act of constructing something.; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" |
| ~ build, construct, make | make by combining materials and parts.; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" |
| v. (emotion) | 14. arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ touch a chord, strike a chord | evoke a reaction, response, or emotion.; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord" |
| ~ ask for, invite | increase the likelihood of.; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" |
| ~ draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" |
| ~ rekindle | arouse again.; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love" |
| ~ infatuate | arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way.; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her" |
| ~ prick | to cause a sharp emotional pain.; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience" |
| ~ fire up, stir up, heat, ignite, wake, inflame | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ excite | arouse or elicit a feeling. |
| ~ anger | make angry.; "The news angered him" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| ~ shame | cause to be ashamed. |
| ~ spite, bruise, injure, wound, offend, hurt | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overcome, overtake | overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (creation) | 15. raise | create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise.; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| v. (change) | 16. elevate, lift, raise | raise in rank or condition.; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ dignify | raise the status of.; "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer" |
| ~ exalt | raise in rank, character, or status.; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser" |
| v. (motion) | 17. leaven, prove, raise | cause to puff up with a leaven.; "unleavened bread" |
| ~ lift, elevate, raise, get up, bring up | raise from a lower to a higher position.; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
| ~ prove, rise | increase in volume.; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room" |
| v. (competition) | 18. raise | bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level. |
| ~ bridge | any of various card games based on whist for four players. |
| ~ bid, call | make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands.; "He called his trump" |
| v. (competition) | 19. raise | bet more than the previous player. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| ~ wager, bet, play | stake on the outcome of an issue.; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse" |
| v. (competition) | 20. levy, raise, recruit | cause to assemble or enlist in the military.; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" |
| ~ muster in, draft, enlist | engage somebody to enter the army. |
| v. (communication) | 21. bring up, raise | put forward for consideration or discussion.; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (communication) | 22. raise | pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth.; "raise your `o'" |
| ~ enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" |
| v. (communication) | 23. raise | activate or stir up.; "raise a mutiny" |
| ~ instigate, incite, stir up, set off | provoke or stir up.; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" |
| v. (communication) | 24. raise | establish radio communications with.; "They managed to raise Hanoi last night" |
| ~ radio, radiocommunication, wireless | medium for communication. |
| ~ contact, get hold of, get through, reach | be in or establish communication with.; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" |
| v. (cognition) | 25. raise | multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3. |
| ~ arithmetic | the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations. |
| ~ multiply | combine by multiplication.; "multiply 10 by 15" |
| v. (change) | 26. raise | bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project.; "raised edges" |
| ~ set off, bring out | direct attention to, as if by means of contrast.; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets" |
| v. (change) | 27. lift, raise | invigorate or heighten.; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better | to make better.; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" |
| v. (change) | 28. lift, raise | put an end to.; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| v. (body) | 29. raise, resurrect, upraise | cause to become alive again.; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts" |
| ~ resuscitate, revive | cause to regain consciousness.; "The doctors revived the comatose man" |
| ~ resurrect, uprise, rise | return from the dead.; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" |
| uplift | | |
| n. (event) | 1. upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust | (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building). |
| ~ geology | a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks. |
| ~ rising, ascension, ascent, rise | a movement upward.; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. uplift | a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts. |
| ~ bandeau, bra, brassiere | an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift | fill with high spirits; fill with optimism.; "Music can uplift your spirits" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ beatify | make blessedly happy. |
| ~ puff | make proud or conceited.; "The sudden fame puffed her ego" |
| ~ beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink, exalt, thrill | fill with sublime emotion.; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" |
| ~ joy, rejoice | feel happiness or joy. |
| v. (motion) | 4. uplift | lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces.; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town" |
| ~ go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise | move upward.; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" |
| v. (motion) | 5. uplift | lift up or elevate. |
| ~ push up | push upward. |
| tall | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. tall | a garment size for a tall person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 2. tall | great in vertical dimension; high in stature.; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" |
| ~ high | (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high').; "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high" |
| ~ big, large | above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| ~ gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy | tall and thin and having long slender limbs.; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" |
| ~ in height | having a specified height.; "five feet tall"; "five feet in height" |
| ~ long-legged, long-shanked, leggy | having long legs. |
| ~ leggy, tall-growing | (of plants) having tall spindly stems. |
| ~ long | of relatively great height.; "a race of long gaunt men"; "looked out the long French windows" |
| ~ long-stalked, tall-stalked | of plants having relatively long stalks. |
| ~ statuesque, stately | of size and dignity suggestive of a statue. |
| ~ tallish | somewhat tall. |
| adj. | 3. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall | lofty in style.; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| adj. | 4. tall | impressively difficult.; "a tall order" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 5. improbable, marvellous, marvelous, tall | too improbable to admit of belief.; "a tall story" |
| ~ incredible, unbelievable | beyond belief or understanding.; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" |
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