raise

to raise a wall, or a heap of stones

I will raise forts against thee.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah xxxix:3:

(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.

The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.

To cause something to come to the surface of water.

To cause something to come to the surface of water.

to raise Sandy Hook light

(nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.

To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.

To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.

The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!

(figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.

(military) 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.

(military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.

To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.

(metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself

Because of the heavy traffic, the 1960-61 Christmas guide to trains between King's Cross and the north stated: "To make travel conditions as comfortable as possible, passengers are requested to raise arm rests to enable four people to be seated on each side of those compartments which are fitted with arm rests."

2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, pages 29-30:

to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops

Every pound raised goes to helping some of the world's most vulnerable children.

2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 71:

(transitive) To create, increase or develop.

To create, increase or develop.
To collect or amass.

May it pleaſe your Grace that I ſhall raiſe the ſtreets,
To Gard your Maieſtie through Smithfield as you walke.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:

(obsolete) To call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.

To call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.

We visited a farm where they raise chickens.

Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?

Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.

1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page xxxix:

To create, increase or develop.
To bring up; to grow.

to raise somebody to office

To create, increase or develop.
To promote.

A few important questions were raised after the attack.

President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal.

2025 February 1, Tami Luhby, Eric Bradner and Rene Marsh, “Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit”, in CNN:

To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.

To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.

There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) to raise a use.

(law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).

Starting in January we will raise (introduce) taxes on all tobacco substitutes and vaping accessories.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy xviii:18:

God voutsafes to raise another World From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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:

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.

We need to raise the motivation level in the company.

to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods; to raise (increase) taxes

Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.

To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).

John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.

(poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.

Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.

(arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.

(linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

(linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.

To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.

A division by zero will raise an exception.

Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise the event.

2007, Bruce Bukovics, Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page 243:

(programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).

I will raise a trouble-ticket in order to correct this reporting issue.

en-verb

raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)

raises (present singular third-person)
raising (participle present)
raised (participle past)
raised (past)

raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps

whakahī

Referring to lifting the pitch of a musical note

hāpai

Of lifting an object to a higher elevation

hī

Refers to raising an eyebrow in scepticism

keleszt

to make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven

aradan qaldırmaq

(military) to remove or break up (a blockade); to relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done

збирати

кошти, гроші

qaldırmaq

to mention (a question, issue) for discussion

повдигам

to bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear

araara

Referring to amassing soldiers for an army

From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.

der

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

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

cog

Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”)


raise

The boss gave me a raise.

(US) Ellipsis of pay raise.: an increase in wages or salary.

(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.

(poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.

1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.

(mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.

(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.


raise

Borrowed from Old Norse hreysi; the spelling came about under the influence of the folk etymology that derived it from the verb.