Word Meanings - RAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.

Additional info about word: RAISE

To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. -- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. -- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure. -- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. -- To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. Syn. -- To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. (more info) 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: -- To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. Sir W. Temple. To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: -- To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job xiv. 12. To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden. To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: -- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. Isa. xxxix. 3. To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." Chaucer. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." Johnson's Dict. Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. Paulding. To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him , and all his anger to forget. Milton. To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. Ex. xxiii. 1. To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. Dryden. To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. Spectator. To cause to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAISE)

• Ameliorate
• Improve
• raise
• better
• advantage
• promote
• advance
• amend
• rectify
• meliorate
• Eke
• Help
• increase
• augment
• Elevate
• Raise
• dignify
• ennoble
• Erect
• establish
• plant
• uplift
• construct
• build
• found
• institute
• set up
• Heave
• Lift
• upraise
• sublevate
• hoist

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAISE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to RAISE)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• HOIST
  To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• HOISTAWAY
  A mechanical lift. See Elevator.
• HOISTWAY
  An opening for the hoist, or
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.