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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAISE, v.t. raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke
3:8. John
6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]
1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.
Acts 12.
2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, etc.
I will raise forts against thee. Isaiah 29. amos 9.
5. To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations. Isaiah 61.
6. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Josh 8.
7. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8. To enlarge; to amplify.
9. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
10. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
12. To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psalms 107.
14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14.
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14.
16. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
18. To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19. To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Romans 4. 1 Corinthians 15.
20. To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21. To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
23. To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24. To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell. Let the speaker raise his voice.
25. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
27. To give rise to.
28. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, etc.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
[The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]
29. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deutoronomy 18.
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exodus 9. Judges 2.
32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4.
33. To cause to exist by propagation. Matthew 22.
34. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1.
35. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase]
2: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall]
3: increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); "I'll see your raise and double it"
4: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave] v
1: raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"
2: 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]
3: cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
4: collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college"
5: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce]
6: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
7: 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]
8: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: lift, raise]
9: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down]
10: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke]
11: create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
12: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate]
13: increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" [syn: enhance, heighten, raise]
14: give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" [syn: promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate] [ant: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate]
15: cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread" [syn: raise, leaven, prove]
16: bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
17: bet more than the previous player
18: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]
19: put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic" [syn: raise, bring up]
20: pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'"
21: activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"
22: establish radio communications with; "They managed to raise Hanoi last night"
23: multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
24: bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges"
25: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" [syn: raise, lift]
26: put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: lift, raise]
27: cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts" [syn: resurrect, raise, upraise]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (raised; raising) Etymology: Middle English reisen, raisen, from Old Norse reisa — more at rear Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to cause or help to rise to a standing position 2. a. awaken, arouse b. to stir up ; incite <raise a rebellion> c. to flush (game) from cover d. to recall from or as if from death 3. a. to set upright by lifting or building <raise a monument> b. to lift up <raise your hand> <raise sunken treasure> c. to place higher in rank or dignity ; elevate d. heighten, invigorate <raise the spirits> e. to end or suspend the operation or validity of <raise a siege> 4. to get together for a purpose ; collect <raise funds> 5. a. grow, cultivate <raise cotton> b. to bring to maturity ; rear <raise a child> c. to breed and bring (an animal) to maturity 6. a. to give rise to ; provoke <raise a commotion> b. to give voice to <raise a cheer> 7. to bring up for consideration or debate <raise an issue> 8. a. to increase the strength, intensity, or pitch of <don't raise your voice> b. to increase the degree of c. to cause to rise in level or amount <raise the rent> d. (1) to increase the amount of (a poker bet) (2) to bet more than (a previous bettor) e. (1) to make a higher bridge bid in (a partner's suit) (2) to increase the bid of (one's partner) 9. to make light and porous <raise dough> 10. to cause to ascend <raise the dust> 11. to multiply (a quantity) by itself a specified number of times <raise two to the fourth power> 12. to bring in sight on the horizon by approaching <raise land> 13. a. to bring up the nap of (cloth) b. to cause (as a blister) to form on the skin 14. to increase the nominal value of fraudulently <raise a check> 15. to articulate (a sound) with the tongue in a higher position 16. to establish radio communication with intransitive verb 1. dialect rise 2. to increase a bet or bid Synonyms: see lift • raiser noun II. noun Date: 1538 1. an act of raising or lifting 2. a rising stretch of road ; an upward grade ; rise 3. an increase in amount: as a. an increase of a bet or bid b. an increase in wages or salary 4. a vertical or inclined opening or passageway connecting one mine working area with another at a higher level

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 put or take into a higher position. 2 (often foll. by up) cause to rise or stand up or be vertical; set upright. 3 increase the amount or value or strength of (raised their prices). 4 (often foll. by up) construct or build up. 5 levy or collect or bring together (raise money; raise an army). 6 cause to be heard or considered (raise a shout; raise an objection). 7 set going or bring into being; rouse (raise a protest; raise hopes). 8 bring up; educate. 9 breed or grow (raise one's own vegetables). 10 promote to a higher rank. 11 (foll. by to) Math. multiply a quantity to a specified power. 12 cause (bread) to rise with yeast. 13 Cards a bet more than (another player). b increase (a stake). c Bridge make a bid contracting for more tricks in the same suit as (one's partner); increase (a bid) in this way. 14 abandon or force an enemy to abandon (a siege or blockade). 15 remove (a barrier or embargo). 16 cause (a ghost etc.) to appear (opp. LAY(1) 6b). 17 colloq. find (a person etc. wanted). 18 establish contact with (a person etc.) by radio or telephone. 19 (usu. as raised adj.) cause (pastry etc.) to stand without support (a raised pie). 20 Naut. come in sight of (land, a ship, etc.). 21 make a nap on (cloth). 22 extract from the earth. --n. 1 Cards an increase in a stake or bid (cf. sense 13 of v.). 2 esp. US an increase in salary. Phrases and idioms: raise Cain see CAIN. raised beach Geol. a beach lying above water level owing to changes since its formation. raise the devil colloq. make a disturbance. raise a dust 1 cause turmoil. 2 obscure the truth. raise one's eyebrows see EYEBROW. raise one's eyes see EYE. raise from the dead restore to life. raise one's glass to drink the health of. raise one's hand to make as if to strike (a person). raise one's hat (often foll. by to) remove it momentarily as a gesture of courtesy or respect. raise hell colloq. make a disturbance. raise a laugh cause others to laugh. raise a person's spirits give him or her new courage or cheerfulness. raise one's voice speak, esp. louder. raise the wind Brit. procure money for a purpose. Derivatives: raisable adj. Etymology: ME f. ON reisa, rel. to REAR(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Raise Raise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised; p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: (a) To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [AE]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxxix. 3. (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. ``To raise up a rent.'' --Chaucer. (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. ``He raised sheep.'' ``He raised wheat where none grew before.'' --Johnson's Dict.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(raises, raising, raised) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you raise something, you move it so that it is in a higher position. He raised his hand to wave... Milton raised the glass to his lips. ...a small raised platform. VERB: V n, V n prep/adv, V-ed 2. If you raise a flag, you display it by moving it up a pole or into a high place where it can be seen. They had raised the white flag in surrender... VERB: V n 3. If you raise yourself, you lift your body so that you are standing up straight, or so that you are no longer lying flat. He raised himself into a sitting position... = lift VERB: V pron-refl 4. If you raise the rate or level of something, you increase it. The Republic of Ireland is expected to raise interest rates... ...a raised body temperature. = increase VERB: V n, V-ed 5. To raise the standard of something means to improve it. ...a new drive to raise standards of literacy in Britain's schools. = improve VERB: V n 6. If you raise your voice, you speak more loudly, usually because you are angry. Don't you raise your voice to me, Henry Rollins!... VERB: V n 7. A raise is an increase in your wages or salary. (AM; in BRIT, use rise) Within two months Kelly got a raise. N-COUNT 8. If you raise money for a charity or an institution, you ask people for money which you collect on its behalf. ...events held to raise money for Help the Aged... VERB: V n for n 9. If a person or company raises money that they need, they manage to get it, for example by selling their property or by borrowing. They raised the money to buy the house and two hundred acres of grounds. VERB: V n 10. If an event raises a particular emotion or question, it makes people feel the emotion or consider the question. The agreement has raised hopes that the war may end soon... The accident again raises questions about the safety of the plant. VERB: V n, V n 11. If you raise a subject, an objection, or a question, you mention it or bring it to someone's attention. He had been consulted and had raised no objections. VERB: V n 12. Someone who raises a child looks after it until it is grown up. My mother was an amazing woman. She raised four of us kids virtually singlehandedly. = bring up VERB: V n 13. If someone raises a particular type of animal or crop, they breed that type of animal or grow that type of crop. He raises 2,000 acres of wheat and hay. VERB: V n 14. to raise the alarm: see alarm to raise your eyebrows: see eyebrow to raise a finger: see finger to raise hell: see hell to raise a laugh: see laugh to raise the roof: see roof

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

raz: "To raise" in the Old Testament is most frequently the translation of the Hiphil form of qum, "to cause to arise," e.g. raising up seed (Ge 38:8), a prophet (De 18:18), judges (Jud 2:16,18), etc.; also of `ur, "to awake," "stir up" (Ezr 1:5 the King James Version; Isa 41:2, etc.), with other words. In the New Testament the chief words are egeiro, "to awaken," "arouse" (Mt 3:9; Lu 1:69; 3:8, etc.), frequently of raising the dead; and anistemi (Mt 22:24; Joh 6:39, etc.; Ac 2:24 (30 the King James Version), etc.), with compounds of the former. Among the Revised Version (British and American) changes may be noted, "to stir the fire" for "from raising" (Ho 7:4); "raiseth high his gate" for "exalteth his gate" (Pr 17:19); the American Standard Revised Version, "can it be raised from the roots thereof" for "pluck it up by the roots thereof" (Eze 17:9 the King James Version and the English Revised Version); "raised up" for "rise again" (Mt 20:19; compare Mt 26:32; Ro 8:34; Col 3:1).

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Lift, uplift, set up, raise up, make upright. 2. Hoist, heave. 3. Erect, rear, construct, build up. 4. Exalt, elevate, advance, promote. 5. Enhance, heighten, increase, aggravate, augment, amplify, enlarge. 6. Excite, rouse, arouse, awake, stir up, call up, call forth, put in action, put in motion. 7. Collect, levy, obtain, get, bring together, assemble. 8. Grow, cause to grow, propagate, cultivate. 9. Make light or spongy (as bread). 10. Bring back to life, raise from the dead. 11. [Southern States of the U. S.] Rear, bring up. 12. Cause to arise, give rise to, originate, produce, cause, effect. 13. Give rise to, originate, occasion, start, set going. 14. Utter, strike up, give utterance to. 15. Excite, intensify, invigorate, heighten.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian heights, abandon, abet, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, acculturate, accumulate, accumulation, acme, add to, addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights, agglomerate, aggrandize, aggrandizement, aggregate, aggroup, amass, ameliorate, amend, amplification, amplify, animate, answer, apex, apotheose, apotheosize, appreciation, apprentice, approach, arouse, articulate, ascent, assemble, augment, augmentation, awaken, ballooning, batch, beatify, better, bloat, bloating, blow up, boom, boost, boss, break, break in, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forward, bring together, bring up, broach, broaden, broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk, bulk out, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, buoy, buoy up, call, call up, call up spirits, canonize, carve, cast, cast up, cause, chase, cheer up, chime, chisel, chorus, christen, civilize, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, come out with, commandeer, communicate, communicate with, compare, compile, compose, compound, concoct, condition, conglomerate, conjure, conjure up, conjure up spirits, conscript, construct, contact, convene, convert, convey, corral, correspond, create, crescendo, crop, crown, cultivate, culture, cumulate, deify, deliver, detach, detach for service, develop, development, devise, dig up, dilate, discipline, disclose, discontinue, distend, dizzy heights, draft, draw together, dredge up, drill, drive together, dryfarm, edema, edify, educate, elaborate, elate, elevate, elevation, eliminate, emboss, emend, eminence, emit, encourage, engender, enhance, enlarge, enlargement, enlighten, enlist, ennoble, ennoblement, enrich, enroll, enshrine, enthrone, enunciate, erect, escalate, establish, establish connection, ether, evoke, evolve, exalt, exaltation, exercise, exhilarate, expand, expansion, express, extend, extension, extract, extrude, fabricate, farm, fashion, father, fatten, favor, feed, ferment, fetch up, fill out, fit, fling off, float, flood, foment, form, formulate, forward, foster, found, frame, fudge together, gain, garden, gather, gather in, gather together, get, get in, get to, get together, get up, give, give expression, give out with, give rise to, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glamorize, glorify, go straight, graduate, graduation, greatening, groom, group, grow, growth, gush, harvest, hatch, haul up, heave, heaven, heavens, heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, hike, hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, house-train, housebreak, huff, immortalize, impart, impress, improve, improve upon, inaugurate, increase, increment, indite, induct, inflate, inflation, initiate, inspire, install, instigate, institute, interrogate, introduce, invigorate, invoke, jack up, jerk up, join, jump, jump up, juxtapose, keep, kick upstairs, knight, knighting, knock up, lard, launch, leap, leaven, lengthen, let out, levitate, levy, lick into shape, lift, lift up, lionize, lip, list, lob, loft, lump together, machine, magnify, maintain connection, make, make advances, make an improvement, make contact with, make legendary, make overtures, make up, make up to, manufacture, mass, match, mature, maximize, meliorate, mend, mention, mill, mine, mobilize, mold, moot, mother, mounting, multiplication, muster, muster in, nurse, nurture, obtain, occasion, open, originate, out with, pair, parent, parlay, partner, pass, passing, patch together, pay raise, perk up, phonate, phrase, pick up, piece together, pique, pitch, plant, pour forth, practice, prefabricate, prefer, preferment, prepare, present, press, process, produce, productiveness, proliferation, promote, promotion, prompt, pronounce, propagate, provoke, puff, puff up, pull together, pull up, pump, pump up, put forth, put forward, put in motion, put in tune, put in words, put to school, put together, put up, pyramid, question, quicken, raise aloft, raise ghosts, raise up, rake up, rally, ranch, rarefy, reach, ready, rear, rear aloft, rear up, recruit, refine, refine upon, reform, rehearse, relate to, relieve, remove, reply to, respond to, ridge, ring in, rise, rising ground, round up, rouse, run, run up, saint, sanctify, say, scrape together, send to school, set, set agoing, set astir, set forth, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shape, sharecrop, shout, sign on, sign up, sky, smelt, snowballing, socialize, solicit, sound, spread, stand upright, start going, start up, steep, stick up, stimulate, stir, stir up, straighten out, stratosphere, stretch, sufflate, suggest, summon, summon spirits, surge, swell, swelling, take in hand, take up, tell, terminate, thicken, throne, throw off, throw up, train, transfigure, transform, tumescence, turn on, up, upbuoy, upcast, upend, upgrade, upgrading, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upright, uprise, upsurge, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, usher in, utter, vantage ground, vantage point, verbalize, vitalize, vivify, vocalize, voice, wake up, waken, waxing, whip in, whisper, whomp up, widen, widening, word, write, zenith