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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth]
2: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
3: promote from a lower position or rank; "This player was brought up to the major league"
4: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down]
5: cause to come to a sudden stop; "The noise brought her up in shock"
6: put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic" [syn: raise, bring up]
7: make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer]
8: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to bring (a person) to maturity through nurturing care and education 2. to cause to stop suddenly 3. to bring to attention ; introduce 4. vomit intransitive verb to stop suddenly

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up. She brought up four children... His grandmother and his father brought him up... We'd been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad... I was brought up a Methodist. = raise PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, be V-ed P to-inf, be V-ed P n 2. If you bring up a particular subject, you introduce it into a discussion or conversation. He brought up a subject rarely raised during the course of this campaign... Why are you bringing it up now? = raise PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If someone brings up food or wind, food or air is forced up from their stomach through their mouth. It's hard for the baby to bring up wind. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Educate, instruct, rear, nurse, breed, nurture.

Moby Thesaurus

advance, advert, affront, allude, apprentice, barf, be seasick, be sick, brave, break, break in, breast, breed, bring before, bring forward, bring up short, broach, cast, cease fire, challenge, christen, chuck up, come up short, commend to attention, condition, confront, confront with, cultivate, dare, defy, develop, discipline, disgorge, draw up, drill, educate, egest, encounter, envisage, establish, exercise, face, face with, feed, feed the fish, fetch up, fit, float, form, foster, found, front, gag, groom, halt, hang fire, haul up, heave, heave the gorge, house-train, housebreak, improve, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, keck, launch, lay before, lick into shape, lift up, make a motion, meet, meet squarely, moot, move, nourish, nurse, nurture, offer a resolution, open up, place before, point out, pose, postulate, practice, prefer, prepare, present to, propose, proposition, propound, provide for, puke, pull up, put forth, put forward, put in tune, put it to, put to school, raise, ready, rear, recommend, regurgitate, rehearse, reject, retch, ring in, send to school, set agoing, set before, set forth, set on foot, set up, sick up, spew, stall, start, start going, start up, stem, stick, stop, stop dead, stop short, submit, suggest, take in hand, throw up, train, turn on, upchuck, usher in, ventilate, vomit