Definition of "rise" []

To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling. (verb-intransitive)
To get out of bed: rose at dawn. (verb-intransitive)
To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend: Hot air rises. (verb-intransitive)
To increase in size, volume, or level: The river rises every spring. (verb-intransitive)
To increase in number, amount, or value: Prices are rising. (verb-intransitive)

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Use "rise" in a sentence

"_That the sun will not rise to-morrow_, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, _that it will rise_."
"_That the sun will not rise to-morrow_ is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, _that it will rise_."
"It might also have been acute demoralisation at seeing Mr McCain rise from the grave, and Mr Huckabee come from nowhere; and knowing that they had been enabled to do this only by the new mediocrity of the Giuliani campaign."

Words like "rise"

arise change come up fall

go up grow increase increment

moving ridge return risen rises

rising rose step-up wave