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raise English

Meaning raise meaning

What does raise mean?
Definitions in simple English

raise Verb

— If you raise something you make it higher; that is you move it up. I need to raise the car off the ground to fix it from below. Raise your hand if you know the answer. — If you raise children or animals, you care for them until they have grown up (become adults). I raised the children after their mother died. I raised my dog from a puppy. — If you raise food (plants or animals) you grow it on a farm. This is also used for plants that are not food, like cotton or tobacco. My grandfather raised corn and chickens. — If you raise a number, you make it bigger. — If you raise an idea you start talking about it. Why did you have to raise the issue of abortion? — If someone raises the dead they make dead people alive again. Jesus is said to have raised the dead.

raise Noun

— A raise is an increase in pay at work. I have worked here long enough I should get a raise. — In gambling, a raise is an increased bet.

raise

— verb raise the level or amount of something raise my salary raise the price of bread — verb (= lift) raise from a lower to a higher position Raise your hands Lift a load — verb cause to be heard or known; express or utter raise a shout raise a protest raise a sad cry — verb collect funds for a specific purpose The President raised several million dollars for his college — verb (= grow, 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 — verb (= conjure, call down) 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 — verb (= bring up) bring up raise a family bring up children — verb (= lift) move upwards lift one's eyes — noun (= wage hike, hike) the amount a salary is increased he got a 3% raise he got a wage hike — verb (= erect) construct, build, or erect Raise a barn — verb create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise raise hell raise the roof raise Cain — verb (= lift) raise in rank or condition The new law lifted many people from poverty — verb (= enhance, heighten) increase This will enhance your enjoyment heighten the tension — verb (= arouse, evoke) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) arouse pity raise a smile evoke sympathy — verb (= leaven) cause to puff up with a leaven unleavened bread — verb (= lift) invigorate or heighten lift my spirits lift his ego — verb bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project raised edges — verb establish radio communications with They managed to raise Hanoi last night — verb multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3 — verb pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth raise your 'o' — verb activate or stir up raise a mutiny — verb bet more than the previous player — verb bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level — verb (= bring up) put forward for consideration or discussion raise the question of promotions bring up an unpleasant topic — noun increasing the size of a bet (as in poker) I'll see your raise and double it — noun (= lift) the act of raising something he responded with a lift of his eyebrow fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up — verb (= resurrect, upraise) cause to become alive again raise from the dead Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected Upraising ghosts — verb (= lift) put an end to lift a ban raise a siege — verb (= recruit) cause to assemble or enlist in the military raise an army recruit new soldiers — noun (= rise) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) the car couldn't make it up the rise — verb (= promote, advance, kick upstairs) 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

Synonyms raise synonyms

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raise English » English

lift bring up elevate rear lift up increase breed erect grow rise pick up hoist educate promote cultivate nurture heighten heave advance set up keep collect uplift enhance build augment arouse upgrade lever upraise make foster feed care for stir up provoke get up gather construct put up hold up evoke raising provide for produce farm exalt establish carry boost

Topics raise topics

What do people use raise to talk about?
Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body
States Quantity More

Increase
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Wind
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt
Person Body Head

Eye
Person Life Stage of life Child

Rear a child
Language and thought

Emotion
Language and thought Communication Say

Talk about a subject
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Introduce
Work and occupation Agriculture

Growing crops
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lift
States Big Long

Tall
States Big Distance

High
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Vertical
Grammar Very Degree

To a larger degree
Social behavior Authority Status

High status
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Loud
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Happy
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Confident
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Facial expression
Social behavior Law Trial

Take oath
Social behavior Conflict Hostility

Oppose
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Social behavior Religion Heaven, hell

Resurrection
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Price
Physical actions Posture

Stand
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Unsure
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Prompters of attention

Conjugation raise conjugation

How do you conjugate raise?

raise · verb

Examples raise examples

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Simple sentences

Raise your hand before you answer.
Tom used to raise rabbits.
He is going to raise the taxes.
What we need is a pay raise.
They wanted to know how to raise a billingual child.
The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.
I raise cattle.
You have to raise your hand if you want to speak at the meeting.
Raise your right hand.
And I will raise it again in three days.
Raise your voice.
Don't raise my hopes like that.
Is it possible for me to raise the animal?
Even the periodical pay raise could not keep abreast of higher living costs.
Talk like that will raise suspicion.
Can I use this area to raise vegetables?
When you speak of a pay-raise before recognition, I am inclined to think you are putting the cart before the horse.
The singers sang together in order to raise money to help people with AIDS.
Anyone with an opinion please raise their hand.
Most employees expect a pay raise once a year.
Raise your hand to the sky.
And you are going to raise it in three days?
I'm afraid your request for a pay raise was turned down again.
I'll see to it that you have a raise after the first year.
I'll raise my hand as a signal.

Movie subtitles

With that money, she can buy all the milk in the world and raise 1000 children!
Later, I probably can raise babies well.
I want to raise twins too.
Over time, the effect was to raise productivity, incomes, nutrition and even height.
Does Lord Choi raise bandits?
Previously I fought for a successful career and for my honor. I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world. It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School.
Nobody thought to raise a red flag when they saw a body in a fridge?
Raise our son, start a restaurant. I can't.
You don't know what it's like to be in love, to be married, to raise a son with. With the woman you love. And you have no idea what it's like to lose her.
Uh. Does my new promotion, by any chance, come with a raise?
I'm trying to raise awareness.
Leaving traces behind will not raise an issue.
I couldn't raise a child.
They raise guillotine. to cut the Valgrand's neck!
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
Raise our son, start a restaurant.
You don't know what it's like to be in love, to be married, to raise a son with. With the woman you love.
So let's raise a nonalcoholic bubbly to them. Shall we?
So as not to raise suspicion he takes the medicine Monro brought, and consequently becomes very sick.
So as not to raise suspicion he accepts Monros invitation to stay for the night.
And I wish you birds wouldn't get drunk and raise Cain because that's the way a lot of birds get bumped off.
He tried to raise money all day.
In that case, I'll raise it to 8,000.
This would be a bad country to raise children in, wouldn't it?
Give you a raise.
If you raise a finger against me, you're a dead man.
If she even dared to raise her.
I'll give you a raise.
Because of the danger of war which has always existed, unconditionally raise the white flag and present our country to them, surrendering totally.
At least he didn't raise the price.
When I, the old one, have it safely, you, the young one, raise it.
I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world.
Ambroise gathers all his force to raise the sail with his only working arm.
I raise wheat to sell, not to play with!
Want a raise?
I could raise 5000 on the barbershop.
Raise you.
Well, I'll check to the raise.
Send you back to Montreal, if I can ever raise the money.
I brought you what dough I could raise.
You could raise me up to paradise or you could blast my world into nothingness.

News and current affairs

Allowing opium traffickers to operate with impunity gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.
Should this change, the ECB will have to raise rates even if Europe's economic growth remains slack.
The only way, he says, for the Fed to have kept stock prices in reasonable equilibrium ranges in the late 1990's would have been to raise interest rates so high that they hit the real economy on the head with a brick.
Technically, reducing a deficit is a straightforward matter: one must either cut expenditures or raise taxes.
But why can't the US bring itself to raise taxes on gasoline and other sources of carbon emission like coal burning power plants?
The overwhelming - and sensible - expectation is that the two parties will compromise and raise the debt ceiling before inflicting serious economic and financial dislocations.
Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher-income individuals and small businesses.
Frankly, no one knows what legislative deal will be struck to raise the debt ceiling.
In fact, it is reluctant to say or do anything publicly that might raise China's hackles.
Moreover, many fragile states are rich in natural resources, and must establish transparent resource management - aimed at curbing corruption and controlling illicit flows of money and goods - in order to raise the revenues needed to deliver services.
On the contrary, a shakeout of less productive jobs, for example, would at first raise unemployment, increase government outlays, and reduce private spending.
Suppose that we levy a small tax on existing coal power plants in order to pay for the solar subsidy, and then gradually raise consumers' electricity bills as more and more solar plants are phased in.
It involves three steps: raise money from the globally rich, do not deal with governments, and transfers funds in cash to the poor.
Honoring all three of those legal obligations simultaneously is impossible if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, but raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, though illegal and an impeachable offense, was the least-bad choice.
Reducing deficits in order to raise the debt ceiling was the right thing to do, but the August 2 law does it in the wrong way.
If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the esteem of the European Union and its institutions.
On October 24, people in nearly every country will be taking action to raise awareness of the need for an international treaty to bring our atmosphere back to 350 ppm of CO2.
Today's capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds' investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.
A nurse, Wangari counts on income from farming to raise money to buy more land - for more farming.
Like all worthwhile PR efforts, the MDGs served to raise awareness, galvanize attention, and mobilize action - all for a good cause.
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
Pressures are mounting on the ECB to raise interest rates - and Berlusconi and Co.'s attacks are as much as an attempt to forestall future rate hikes as to get the ECB to loosen its monetary policy.
It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.
And, eventually, some of them will be able to raise capital and start firms of their own - export companies owned and operated by Africans.
How can we push through the reforms that will cut public spending to levels that we can afford and raise our ability to compete internationally?
The immigrants would raise a new generation of doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

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