1. To lift up or make higher; raise
2. To raise in rank or status
3. To improve morally, intellectually, or culturally
4. To raise the spirits of; elate
5. To become elevated; rise
1. To bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; SYN. buckle, warp.
2. To lift with difficulty; SYN. heave up, heft, heft up.
3. To nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position.
4. To throw with great effort.
5. To utter a sound, as with obvious effort.
6. (Slang) To throw up; to vomit.
(Homonym: raze, rays).
1. To activate or stir up.
2. To bet more than the previous player, in poker.
3. To bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief and cause to project.
4. To cause to be heard or known; express or utter.
5. To cause to puff up with a leaven; of dough; SYN. leaven, prove.
6. To collect funds for a specific purpose.
7. To construct, build, or erect; SYN. erect, rear, set up, put up.
8. To create a disturbance, esp. by making a great noise.
9. To establish radio communications with.
10. To evoke or call forth; SYN. conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth.
11. (Bridge) To bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level.
12. To invigorate or heighten;,; SYN. lift.
13. To multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3.
14. To pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth.
15. To put forward for consideration or discussion; SYN. bring up.
16. To raise from a lower to a higher position; SYN. lift, elevate, get up, bring up.
17. To raise the level or amount of something.