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rise c (singular definite risen, plural indefinite riser)

risen (definite singular)
riser (indefinite plural)
rise (indefinite nominative singular)
risen (definite nominative singular)
riser (indefinite nominative plural)
riserne (definite nominative plural)
rises (genitive indefinite singular)
risens (definite genitive singular)
risers (genitive indefinite plural)
risernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse risi, from Proto-Germanic *risiz..


rise

We watched the balloon rise.

(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.

And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

The sun was rising in the East.

(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.

to rise from a chair or from a fall

To become erect; to assume an upright position.

Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise

he rose from the grave;   he is risen!

The committee rose after agreeing to the report.

It was near nine[…]before the House rose.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

among the rising theologians of Germany

1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:

(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.

To increase in value or standing.
To attain a higher status.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.

to rise a tone or semitone

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

to rise to the occasion

Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.

As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.

Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.

2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:

To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.

As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.

To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XV, page 24:

To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To develop, to come about or intensify.

Has that dough risen yet?

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14ʹ south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.

1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register, Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14), page 396

(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).

To have its source (in a particular place).

a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower

To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.

At our heels all hell should rise
 With blackest insurrection.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

No more ſhall nation againſt nation riſe, / Nor ardent vvarriours meet vvith hateful eyes, […]

1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, page 40:

To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

A thought rose in me, which I believe very often perplexes […]men of contemplative natures.

1714 July 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, July 9, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 565; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

to rise a hill

(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.

to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water

to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it

Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.

1882, William Clark Russell, My Watch Below:

(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.

He,[…] rising with small honour from Gunza,[…]was gone.

1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, / An auncient booke, […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59:

(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

en-verb

rise (third-person singular simple present rises, present participle rising, simple past rose, past participle risen)

rises (present singular third-person)
rising (participle present)
rose (past)
risen (participle past)

sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow

sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning

أَشْرَقَ

of a celestial body: to appear to move from behind the horizon

втасвам

of a dough, etc: to swell or puff up in the process of fermentation

From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). See also raise.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian rize, Saterland Frisian riese (“to arise”), Dutch rijzen (“to rise, ascend, lift”), German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”), German dialectal reisen (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa (“to rise”), Icelandic rísa (“to rise”). Related also to German reisen (“to travel, fare”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), Danish rejse (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rris (“I raise, grow”) and Russian рост (rost, “growth”).

der

Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”)

Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”)

cog

German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”)


rise

The rise of the tide.

There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.

Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.

The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

The rise of the working class.

The rise of the printing press.

The rise of the feminists.

The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

(chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.

The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise: an increase in wage or salary.

The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.

The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.

2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter VII”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.

She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.

(informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.

As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.

Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

(architecture) The height of an arch or a step.


rise

From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs, from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“twig; shoot”). More at rice.


rise

first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of rir


rise

third-person singular past historic of ridere


rise

risen (definite singular)
riser (indefinite plural)
risene (definite plural)

From Old Norse risi. Cognate with German Riese (“giant”).


rise

riser (present)
riste (past)
rist (participle past)

From the noun ris (“spanking, whipping”).


rise

risen (definite singular)
risar (indefinite plural)
risane (definite plural)

From Old Norse risi, from Proto-Germanic *risiz.


rise

e-infinitive and split infinitive form of risa

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rise (present tense ris, past tense reis, past participle rise, present participle risande, imperative ris)

ris (present)
reis (past)
rise (participle past)
risande (participle present)
ris (imperative)


rise

risar (present)
risa (past)
risa (participle past)
risast (infinitive passive)
risande (participle present)
rise (imperative)
ris (imperative)


rise

first-person singular present indicative

inflection of rīsan:
singular present subjunctive


rise

second-person singular preterite indicative

inflection of rīsan:
singular preterite subjunctive


rise

From Latin risus, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza).