name · noun · verb · 63 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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rīz
/ɹaɪz/
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homophone: ryes
homophone: wries
rhymes with -aɪz
/ɹaɪs/
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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2
noun
Meaning 2
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The rise of the tide.
There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
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noun
Meaning 3
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The rise of the working class.
The rise of the printing press.
The rise of the feminists.
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noun
Meaning 4
An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, also
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, sometimes
Qualifier: rest of Commonwealth
Examples
The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
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6
noun
Meaning 6
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
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7
noun
Meaning 7
The front of a diaper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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8
noun
Meaning 8
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Sussex
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 9
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.
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noun
Meaning 11
The height of an arch or a step.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
Examples
As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
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12
noun
Meaning 12
Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 13
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To move upwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
We watched the balloon rise.
Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops.
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verb
Meaning 14
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
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verb
Meaning 15
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To slope upward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
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verb
Meaning 16
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
The sun was rising in the East.
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verb
Meaning 17
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
to rise from a chair or from a fall
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verb
Meaning 18
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 19
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To be resurrected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Examples
he rose from the grave; he is risen!
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verb
Meaning 20
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Examples
The committee rose after agreeing to the report.
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21
verb
Meaning 21
To increase in value or standing.
To attain a higher status.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 22
To increase in value or standing.
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 23
To increase in value or standing.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
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verb
Meaning 24
To increase in value or standing.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
to rise a tone or semitone
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verb
Meaning 25
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
to rise to the occasion
Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
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verb
Meaning 26
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To develop, to come about or intensify.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.
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verb
Meaning 27
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
Has that dough risen yet?
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verb
Meaning 28
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To have its source (in a particular place).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 29
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower
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verb
Meaning 30
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 31
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 32
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
to rise a hill
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verb
Meaning 33
To cause to go up or ascend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
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verb
Meaning 34
To retire; to give up a siege.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 35
To come; to offer itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 36
To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
Meaning 37
the act of changing location in an upward direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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