Definition of raise

"raise" in the noun sense

1. raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase

the amount a salary is increased

"he got a 3% raise"

"he got a wage hike"

2. ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade

an upward slope or grade (as in a road

"the car couldn't make it up the rise"

3. raise

increasing the size of a bet (as in poker

"I'll see your raise and double it"

4. lift, raise, heave

the act of raising something

"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"

"fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

"raise" in the verb sense

1. raise

raise the level or amount of something

"raise my salary"

"raise the price of bread"

2. raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up

raise from a lower to a higher position

"Raise your hands"

"Lift a load"

3. raise

cause to be heard or known express or utter

"raise a shout"

"raise a protest"

"raise a sad cry"

4. raise

collect funds for a specific purpose

"The President raised several million dollars for his college"

5. grow, raise, farm, produce

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"

6. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent

look after a child until it is an adult

"raise a family"

"bring up children"

7. raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth

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"

8. lift, raise

move upwards

"lift one's eyes"

9. raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

construct, build, or erect

"Raise a barn"

10. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses

"arouse pity"

"raise a smile"

"evoke sympathy"

11. raise

create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise

"raise hell"

"raise the roof"

"raise Cain"

12. lift, raise, elevate

raise in rank or condition

"The new law lifted many people from poverty"

13. enhance, heighten, raise

increase

"This will enhance your enjoyment"

"heighten the tension"

14. promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate

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"

15. raise, leaven, prove

cause to puff up with a leaven

"unleavened bread"

16. raise

bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level

17. raise

bet more than the previous player

18. recruit, levy, raise

cause to assemble or enlist in the military

"raise an army"

"recruit new soldiers"

19. raise, bring up

put forward for consideration or discussion

"raise the question of promotions"

"bring up an unpleasant topic"

20. raise

pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth

"raise your `o'"

21. raise

activate or stir up

"raise a mutiny"

22. raise

establish radio communications with

"They managed to raise Hanoi last night"

23. raise

multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3

24. raise

bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project

"raised edges"

25. raise, lift

invigorate or heighten

"lift my spirits"

"lift his ego"

26. lift, raise

put an end to

"lift a ban"

"raise a siege"

27. resurrect, raise, upraise

cause to become alive again

"raise from the dead"

"Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"

"Upraising ghosts"

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Quotations for raise

Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed. [ Tennyson ]

He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [ Cicero ]

Sure, of qualities demanding praise,
More go to ruin fortunes, than to raise. [ Pope ]

Reason raise over instinct as you can.
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. [ Pope ]

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! [ Bailey ]

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phantoms that seem to live. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. [ Churchill ]

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble minds,)
To scorn delights and live laborious days. [ Milton ]

Raise up no spirits that you cannot conjure down again. [ Proverb ]

Men will do more to support a character than to raise one. [ Colton ]

Love ought to raise a low heart and not humble a high one. [ Ariosto ]

What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low, raise and support. [ Milton ]

If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion. [ Proverb ]

There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. [ George Eliot ]

To dazzle let the vain design: to raise the thought, and touch the heart, be thine. [ Pope ]

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. [ Glanville ]

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. [ Beecher ]

When any one has offended me. I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. [ Descartes ]

True philosophy raises us above grandeur, but nothing can raise us above the ennui which it causes. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. [ South ]

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [ Goethe ]

Not because I raise myself above something but because I raise myself to something, do I approve myself. [ Jacobi ]

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. [ Virgil ]

We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. [ Hesiodus ]

I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]

Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done; passion knows more than art. [ Baron ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. [ Colton ]

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. [ Edward Everett ]

Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. [ D. D. Field ]

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

To elevate and surprise is the great art of quackery and puffing; to raise a lively and exaggerated image in the mind, and take it by surprise before it can recover breath. [ Hazlitt ]

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union. and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. [ Cicero ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]

raise in Scrabble®

The word raise is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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raise in Words With Friends™

The word raise is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words within the letters of raise

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5 letter words in raise (Anagrams) (2 words)

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