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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | progress in business |
| Synonyms: | advance, be elevated, be promoted, better oneself, climb the ladder, flourish, get on, get somewhere, go places, progress, prosper, succeed, thrive, work one's way up |
| Antonyms: | decline, drop, fall, slump |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become apparent |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, befall, begin, betide, chance, come, dawn, derive, develop, emanate, emerge, eventuate, fall out*, flow, go, happen, head, issue, loom, occur, originate, proceed, spring, stem, surface, transpire, turn up*, crop up, flare up |
| Antonyms: | decline, recede, regress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rebel |
| Synonyms: | mount, mutiny, resist, revolt, riot, insurrect, take up arms |
| Antonyms: | comply, cooperate, give in, go along |
| Main Entry: | accretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gradual growth, addition |
| Synonyms: | accession, accumulation, augmentation, increase, increment, raise, rise, build-up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduction, shrinkage |
| 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: | ascension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | going up |
| Synonyms: | ascent, flying, rise, rising, soaring, towering, climbing, escalating, mounting, scaling |
| Antonyms: | decline, declension, descendancy |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, amplification, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, growth, hike, increase, increment, inflation, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, swelling, up, beefing up, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, magnification, strengthening, upping |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | breakthrough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advance, progress |
| Synonyms: | boost, development, discovery, find, finding, gain, hike, improvement, increase, invention, leap, progress, quantum leap*, rise, step forward |
| Antonyms: | step back, step backward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bristle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | be angry, be infuriated, be maddened, blow up*, boil, boil over, bridle, flare, flare up, fume, get one's dander up, rage, rise, ruffle, see red, seethe, spit*, stand on end, swell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean, slant |
| Synonyms: | angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip |
| 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: | come from |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arise, emanate |
| Synonyms: | accrue, derive from, ejaculate, emerge, end up, flow, issue, originate, proceed, result, rise, spring, stem, turn out, hail from |
| Main Entry: | come up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen suddenly |
| Synonyms: | arise, occur, rise, turn up, crop up, spring up |
| 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: | dawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start |
| Synonyms: | appear, begin, develop, emerge, glimmer, initiate, lighten, loom, open, originate, rise, unfold, show itself |
| Antonyms: | end, finish, set |
| Main Entry: | derive from |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come from; arise |
| Synonyms: | descend, emanate, flow, head, issue, originate, proceed, rise, spring from, stem from |
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