Definitions
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; toelevate . - verb archaic To
move somethingupright ; toerect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to become alive again
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thereupon the Wazir prostrated himself before the King and wished him permanence of prosperity, saying, Allah prolong thy days and thy rank upraise!
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Lift thy head, unhappy lady, from the ground; thy neck upraise; this is Troy no more, no longer am I queen in Ilium.
The Trojan Women 2008
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World oil raised to US$ 92/barrel affected by fuel demand upraise from China (due to cold weather and disaster) near Chinese New Year and also decreasing rate of interest by FED.
EVENT/INCIDENT 2008 ACCORDING TO DATE(NATIONAL&a 2008
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Lift thy head, unhappy lady, from the ground; thy neck upraise; this is Troy no more, no longer am I queen in Ilium.
The Trojan Women 2008
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I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forebore to upraise the sash.
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It doesn't happen in Iraq, because there's no power, you don't have the technological infrastructure in Iraq but here suddenly we're seeing now really a serious upraise in the number of citizen journalists from both sides of the firing line filing blogs, first hand witness accounts of what it's like to be under fire.
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The Song and the Chapter 17 story share this “I will upraise him.”
The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994
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( "Cantemus cuncti") well known in England by the translation, "The strain upraise of joy and praise."
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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I didn't say anything; the thunder of the storm roared too loudly in my head for me to upraise my small voice against it, or to offer my tiny sympathy to that man whose endurance had been measured against the elements, and whose standard must be for ever after raised to the summit of their standard.
The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. V. Sackville West
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And even in their efforts to upraise the social revolution -- the great upheaval to which all
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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