arise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To get up, as from a sitting or prone position; rise.
2. v. To awaken and get up: arose at dawn.
3. v. To move upward; ascend.
4. v. To come into being; originate: hoped that a new spirit of freedom was arising.
5. v. To result, issue, or proceed: mistakes that arise from a basic misunderstanding. See Synonyms at stem¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling, or from a posture or state of repose, as from sleep or the grave: as, the audience arose and remained standing.
2. To get up from a sitting or session, as of a court; suspend sittings for a time; adjourn: as, the court arose at 4 o'clock.
3. To spring up from, or as from, the ground; ascend; mount or move from a lower to a higher place: as, vapors arise from humid ground.
4. To come into view, as from a hiding-place; specifically, to appear, as the sun or a star, above the horizon: hence, to begin, or be ushered in, as the day.
5. To come into being or action; come into existence or play; start into prominence or activity; appear; come upon the scene: as, a false prophet has arisen; a great wind arose; a cry arose.
6. To have a beginning or origin; originate. To have or take its rise, as a river; rise, as from a source.
7. To come or spring up incidentally, as anything requiring attention: as, other cases can be attended to as they arise.
8. To rise in hostility; rebel: with against: as, the men arose against their officers.
9. [In senses 1–4, 6 , and 8, rise is now more common.] Synonyms Arise, Rise. The choice between these words was primarily, and still often is, a matter of rhythm. The literal meanings, however, or those which seem literal, have become more associated with rise, and the consciously figurative with arise: as, he rose from his chair; the sun rose; the provinces rose in revolt; trouble arose; “Music arose with its voluptuous swell,” Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 21.
10. n. Rising.

Wiktionary

1. v. To get up.
2. v. To start to exist.
3. v. To resume existing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise
2. v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself
3. v. To proceed; to issue; to spring.
4. n. obsolete Rising.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. come into existence; take on form or shape
2. v. move upward
3. v. originate or come into being
4. v. result or issue
5. v. rise to one's feet
6. v. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
7. v. get up and out of bed