1. (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

2. (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

3. (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

4. (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

5. (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

6. (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

7. (v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

8. (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

9. (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

10. (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

11. (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

12. (v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

13. (v.) To appear above the horizon, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

14. (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

15. (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

16. (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

17. (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

18. (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

19. (v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.

20. (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

21. (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.

22. (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

23. (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

24. (v.) In various figurative senses.

25. (v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

26. (v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

27. (v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

28. (v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

29. (v.) To come; to offer itself.

30. (v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

31. (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

32. (v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

33. (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.

34. (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

35. (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

36. (n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

37. (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

38. (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

39. (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

40. (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

41. (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

42. (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Great Leap Forward Olympian heights abruptness access accession acclivity accomplishment accretion accrual accrue accrue from accruement accumulate accumulation achieve success acme action and reaction activate addition advance advancement aerial heights aggrandizement agitate amelioration amendment amplification anabasis answer apex apparition appear appearance appearing appreciate appreciation arise arise from arising arrive ascend ascension ascent augmentation automatic reaction autonomic reaction avatar awake awake the dead awaken back back up balloon ballooning bank be a success be begotten be born be contingent on be due to be equal to be incarnated be poised become become manifest become visible begin beginning bettering betterment billow blast blast the ear bloat bloating blossoming boom boost bore bounceback break break out break through breakers breakthrough breed bring about bring into being bring out bristle broaden broadening bud from budge buildup buoy up burst forth buss the clouds cant careen cast up cause change change place chop choppiness chopping sea circle clamber climb climbing cock up comb comber come come alive come forth come forward come from come in sight come into being come into existence come on come out come out of come through come to come to be come to hand come to life come to light come up coming coming into being coming-forth commence commencement conception crash crescendo crop out crop up curl upwards cut a swath dash deafen decline depend on derivation derive from descend descend from develop development developmental change din dip dirty water disclosure dizzy heights drop eagre ebb ebb and flow echo edema elaboration elevate elevation emanate from emerge emerge from emergence eminence encourage engender enhancement enlargement ennoblement enrichment ensue from enter epiphany erect erupt escalade escalate ether eugenics euthenics evolution evolutionary change evolvement evolving exaltation expansion explication exposure extension fade in fall fall away fall off fill the air flight float flood flow flow from flowering fly follow from foment forthcoming fountain furtherance gain gain strength generate genesis germinate from get ahead get on get over get there get to be get up give rise to go go around go downhill go far go places go round go sideways go up go uphill goad grade gradient gradual change graduation grass roots gravity wave greatening greet the day ground swell grow grow from grow out of grow up growth gush gyrate