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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To raise or lift up; elevate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To raise; lift up.
  • noun In mech., a riser; an up-take; specifically, in mining, a secondary shaft or mill-hole carried from one heading or gangway up toward another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To raise; to lift up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To raise something up; to elevate.
  • verb archaic To move something upright; to erect.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause to become alive again

Etymologies

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From up- +‎ raise.

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