RAISE


Meaning of RAISE in English

(~s, raising, ~d)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you ~ something, you move it so that it is in a higher position.

He ~d his hand to wave...

Milton ~d the glass to his lips.

...a small ~d platform.

VERB: V n, V n prep/adv, V-ed

2.

If you ~ a flag, you display it by moving it up a pole or into a high place where it can be seen.

They had ~d the white flag in surrender...

VERB: V n

3.

If you ~ yourself, you lift your body so that you are standing up straight, or so that you are no longer lying flat.

He ~d himself into a sitting position...

= lift

VERB: V pron-refl

4.

If you ~ the rate or level of something, you increase it.

The Republic of Ireland is expected to ~ interest rates...

...a ~d body temperature.

= increase

VERB: V n, V-ed

5.

To ~ the standard of something means to improve it.

...a new drive to ~ standards of literacy in Britain’s schools.

= improve

VERB: V n

6.

If you ~ your voice, you speak more loudly, usually because you are angry.

Don’t you ~ your voice to me, Henry Rollins!...

VERB: V n

7.

A ~ is an increase in your wages or salary. (AM; in BRIT, use rise )

Within two months Kelly got a ~.

N-COUNT

8.

If you ~ money for a charity or an institution, you ask people for money which you collect on its behalf.

...events held to ~ money for Help the Aged...

VERB: V n for n

9.

If a person or company ~s money that they need, they manage to get it, for example by selling their property or by borrowing.

They ~d the money to buy the house and two hundred acres of grounds.

VERB: V n

10.

If an event ~s a particular emotion or question, it makes people feel the emotion or consider the question.

The agreement has ~d hopes that the war may end soon...

The accident again ~s questions about the safety of the plant.

VERB: V n, V n

11.

If you ~ a subject, an objection, or a question, you mention it or bring it to someone’s attention.

He had been consulted and had ~d no objections.

VERB: V n

12.

Someone who ~s a child looks after it until it is grown up.

My mother was an amazing woman. She ~d four of us kids virtually singlehandedly.

= bring up

VERB: V n

13.

If someone ~s a particular type of animal or crop, they breed that type of animal or grow that type of crop.

He ~s 2,000 acres of wheat and hay.

VERB: V n

14.

to ~ the alarm: see alarm

to ~ your eyebrows: see eyebrow

to ~ a finger: see finger

to ~ hell: see hell

to ~ a laugh: see laugh

to ~ the roof: see roof

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