01 v. t. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
imp. & p. p.
Raised; p. pr. & vb. n.
Raising
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.“This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.” — Clarendon.“The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.” — Sir W. Temple.
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To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
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To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
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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.
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To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.“They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.” — Job xiv. 12.
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To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.“He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind.” — Ps. cvii. 25.“Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains.” — Dryden.
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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.“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ?” — Acts xxvi. 8.
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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.
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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.“I will raise forts against thee.” — Isa. xxix. 3.
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To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
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To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.“I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North.” — Paulding.
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To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.” — Deut. xviii. 18.“God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.” — Milton.
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To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.“Thou shalt not raise a false report.” — Ex. xxiii. 1.
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To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.“Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry.” — Dryden.
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To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
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To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.“Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste.” — Spectator.
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To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.(Naut.)
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To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.(Law)
Phrases & compounds
To raise a blockade —
to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, —
to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
To raise a siege —
to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
To raise steam —
to produce steam of a required pressure.
To raise the wind —
to procure ready money by some temporary expedient.
To raise Cain —
to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble.