How do you spell Raising
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1) n. - The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
2) n. - Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
3) n. - The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
4) v. t. - To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
5) v. t. - To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
6) v. t. - To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
7) v. t. - To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
8) v. t. - To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
9) v. t. - To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
10) v. t. - To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
11) v. t. - To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
12) v. t. - To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
13) v. t. - To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
14) v. t. - To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
15) v. t. - To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
16) v. t. - To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
17) v. t. - To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
18) v. t. - To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
19) v. t. - To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
20) v. t. - To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
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