(~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