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  1. intransitive verb To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
  2. intransitive verb To get out of bed: rose at dawn.
  3. intransitive verb To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend: Hot air rises.
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  • Just past the rise was a three-meter drop into a twenty-meter-wide gully running across his line of travel. —  Cascade Point
  • If, indeed, we have put in an important market low and entered a bull phase, the rise should be a multi-month affair, not a brief rally. —  TraderFeed
  • The actual fuel to the rise was the success of a new offering for KIM: —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Overseas Emigration, based in Graham Street, has seen applications rise 32 per cent in the last year, and Mr Gregan says two of the main reasons for the rise is the second poor summer in a row and the continuing uncertainty in the UK economy.
  • As I mentioned before, I think his party has strong neo-fascist tendencies, and I think that their rise is a manifestation of the direction Israel is going. —  Democracy Now!
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increase ·  fall ·  growth ·  decline ·  move ·  flow ·  wave ·  progress ·  loss ·  burst ·  return ·  height

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan; see er-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English rīsen, ry¯sen (preterit ros, roos, earlier ras, plural risen, rise, resin, reson, past participle risen, risin), from Anglo-Saxon rīsan (preterit rās, plural rison, past participle risen), rise, = Old Saxon rīsan = OFries. rīsa, rise, = Dutch rijzen, rise or fall, = Middle Low German Low German risen = Old High German rīsan, Middle High German rīsen, rise or fall, = Icelandic rīsa = Gothic (Moesogothic) *reisan (preterit *rais, past participle risans), in comp. urreisan (= Anglo-Saxon ārīsan, English arise); orig. expressive of vertical motion either up or down, but in English confined to upward motion. The Old High German reisōn, Middle High German G. reisen (= Swedish resa = Danish reise), travel, is from the noun, Old High German reisa, Middle High German reise, a setting out, expedition, journey, German reise (= Swedish resa = Danish reise), a journey, from Old High German rīsan, Middle High German rīsen, rise.
  2. First in modern English; from rise, v.
  3. Also rice, Scots reise; from Middle English rīs, rys, from Anglo-Saxon hrīs, a twig, branch, = Dutch rijs = Old High German hrīs, rīs, Middle High German rīs, German reis = Icelandic hrīs = Swedish Danish ris, a twig, branch, rod.
 

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