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| Main Entry: | climb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crawl, move up |
| Synonyms: | ascend, clamber, escalate, mount, rise, scale, soar, top, ape up, escalade, go up |
| Antonyms: | descend, dismount, go down, retreat |
| Main Entry: | arise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get, stand, or go up |
| Synonyms: | ascend, climb, jump, mount, rise, rise and shine*, soar, stand, tower, turn out, move upward, pile out*, roll out*, wake up |
| Antonyms: | lay, lie, sit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ascend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go up |
| Synonyms: | arise, climb, escalate, float, fly, mount, rise, scale, soar, sprout, take off, tower, lift off, move up |
| Antonyms: | decline, descend, go down, lower |
| Main Entry: | ascent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upward movement |
| Synonyms: | ascension, climb, lift, rise, rising, spring, take off, ascendance, ascending, clambering, climbing, mounting, scaling |
| Antonyms: | decline, descent, lowering |
| Main Entry: | crescendo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase to climax |
| Synonyms: | apex, ascension, building, climb, crest, critical mass, culmination, elevation, escalation, peak, pinnacle, rise, summit, surge, upsurge, zenith, intensification |
| Main Entry: | escalate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, be increased |
| Synonyms: | amplify, ascend, broaden, climb, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, intensify, magnify, make worse, mount, raise, rise, scale, step up, widen |
| Antonyms: | decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, weaken |
| Main Entry: | fly |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take to the air, usually employing wings |
| Synonyms: | barnstorm*, buzz*, circle, climb, control, cross, dart, dash, dive, drift, fleet, flit, float, flutter, glide, hop, hover, hurry, jet, maneuver, mount, operate, pilot, reach, rush, sail, scud*, shoot, skim, skirt, soar, speed, swoop, take off, travel, whisk*, whiz*, wing*, zip*, zoom*, aviate, bend the throttle, circumnavigate, flat-hat, jet out, jet over, remain aloft, seagull, sky out, take a hop, take flight, take wing, whoosh, wing in |
| Antonyms: | land, walk, stay on ground |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | get ahead |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excel, succeed |
| Synonyms: | advance, climb, flourish, get on, outdo, outmaneuver, overtake, progress, prosper, surpass, thrive, be successful, do well, leave behind, make good |
| Antonyms: | fail, fall behind |
| Main Entry: | get on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mount |
| Synonyms: | ascend, board, climb, embark, scale, enplane, entrain, go up |
| Antonyms: | dismount, get off |
| Main Entry: | get up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mount; get out of bed |
| Synonyms: | arise, ascend, awake, awaken, climb, increase, rise, rise and shine*, scale, stand, turn out, move up, pile out*, roll out, spring out, uprise, upspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, lean, leaning, level, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade, inclined plane, obliquity |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, hillock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, shock, slope, stack, summit, butte, esker, highland, hillside, hilltop, hummock, rising ground, talus, tor, upland |
| Antonyms: | canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move upwards; ascend |
| Synonyms: | arise, aspire, boost, bring up, build up, climb, come up, disappear, disperse, dissipate, draw up, elevate, erect, hike, hoist, mount, pick up, put up, raise, rear, rise, soar, take up, up, uphold, uplift, vanish, bear aloft, buoy up, goose*, heft, hike up, jack up, jump up, move up, raise high, upheave, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | descend, drop, lower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | move |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be in motion, put in motion |
| Synonyms: | actuate, advance, blow, budge, bustle, carry, change, climb, crawl, cross, depart, dislocate, disturb, drift, drive, exit, flow, fly, get off, glide, go, hurry, impel, jump, leap, leave, march, migrate, position, proceed, progress, propel, pull out, push, quit, remove, roll, run, scram, shift, ship, shove, split, stir, switch, take off, transfer, transport, transpose, travel, traverse, walk, withdraw, get away, get going, go away, head for, locomote, off-load, relocate, skip out |
| Antonyms: | fix, pause, remain, stay, stop |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about; travel aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | amble, bat around*, branch off, clamber, climb, cruise, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, extend, fork, gad, gallivant, knock about*, meander, perambulate, percolate, promenade, range, roam, rove, saunter, scramble, snake, sprawl, spread, straddle, straggle, stray, stroll, trail, traipse, turn, twist, walk, wind, zigzag, be all over the map, excurse, get sidetracked, knock around, peregrinate, sprangle, spread-eagle |
| Antonyms: | stay, be direct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, enlargement, growth, hike, increment, inflation, multiplication, progress, promotion, raise, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, aggrandizement, doubling, heightening, intensification, intensifying, piling up, stacking up, step-up, waxing |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement upward; upward slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascension, ascent, climb, elevation, eminence, hillock, incline, lift, mount, rising, soaring, surge, towering, upsurge, highland, rising ground, upland |
| Antonyms: | decline, drop, fall |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get up; ascend |
| Synonyms: | arise, arouse, aspire, awake, be erect, be located, be situated, blast off*, bob up, climb, come up, get out of bed, get steeper, get to one's feet, go uphill, grow, have foundation, levitate, lift, mount, move up, pile out*, push up, reach up, rise and shine*, rise up, rocket, roll out*, rouse, scale, sit up, slope upwards, soar, sprout, stand up, straighten up, surface, surge, surmount, sweep upward, tower, turn out, up*, upspring |
| Antonyms: | descend, lower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, heighten, improve, inflate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, multiply, perk up, pick up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, spread, swell, take off, upsurge, wax, go through the roof, go up, intensate, move up, pile up, speed up, stack up |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | rocket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shoot up |
| Synonyms: | ascend, climb, escalate, grow, lift, rise, sail, skyrocket, soar, take off*, tower, zoom, go through the ceiling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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