How do you spell Rising
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1) a. - Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.
2) a. - Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.
3) a. - Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
4) prep. - More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.
5) n. - The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
6) n. - That which rises; a tumor; a boil.
7) v. - To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
8) v. - To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
9) v. - To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
10) v. - To retire; to give up a siege.
11) v. - To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
12) v. - To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
13) v. - To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
14) v. - To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
15) v. - To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
16) v. - To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
17) v. - To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
18) v. - To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
19) v. - To become of higher value; to increase in price.
20) v. - To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
21) v. - To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
22) v. - To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
23) v. - To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
24) v. - In various figurative senses.
25) v. - To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
26) v. - To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
27) v. - To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
28) v. - To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
29) v. - To come; to offer itself.
30) v. - To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
31) v. - To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
32) v. - To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
33) v. - To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
34) n. - The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
35) n. - The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
36) n. - Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
37) n. - Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
38) n. - Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
39) n. - Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
40) n. - Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
41) n. - Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
42) n. - The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
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