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raise

verb

1 Arthur raised a hand in greeting | the remains of the ship were eventually raised:

lift, lift up, raise aloft, elevate;

uplift, upraise, hoist, haul up, heave up, lever up, hitch up, take up;

British, informal hoick up;

rare upheave, uprear, upthrust.

2 he raised the child to a sitting position:

set upright, place vertical, set up, put up, stand (up), upend, stand on end;

pitch.

▷antonyms knock over, lay down.

3 there was no alternative but to raise prices:

increase, put up, push up, up, mark up, step up, lift, augment, escalate, inflate, swell, add to;

informal hike (up), jack up, bump up.

▷antonyms lower, reduce.

4 I really hope they can raise their game:

improve, boost, lift, enhance, make better, ameliorate, upgrade.

5 he raised the volume of his voice slightly | they were able to raise public awareness of the issues involved:

increase, heighten, make higher, lift, augment, amplify, magnify, intensify, boost, step up, turn up, add to;

make louder, louden.

▷antonyms lower.

6 the temple was raised in about 900 BC:

build, construct, erect, assemble, put up.

▷antonyms demolish, raze.

7 the yeast created enough gas to raise the thick bread dough:

cause to rise, make rise, leaven, ferment;

puff up, dilate, inflate.

8 how do you propose to raise the money?:

get, obtain, acquire;

accumulate, amass, scrape together, collect;

fetch, realize, yield, net, make.

▷antonyms distribute, spend.

9 the city had raised troops to fight for the Government:

recruit, enlist, sign up, conscript, call to arms, call up, muster, mobilize, levy, rally, press, get/gather together, collect, assemble, call together;

North American draft.

▷antonyms stand down, demobilize.

10 stamp duty is a tax raised on transfers of ownership:

levy, impose, exact, demand, charge.

11 he raised one objection after another:

bring up, introduce, advance, broach, mention, allude to, touch on, suggest, moot, put forward, bring forward, pose, present, propose, submit;

air, ventilate;

British table.

▷antonyms withdraw, keep quiet about.

12 the disaster raised doubts about the safety of nuclear power:

give rise to, occasion, cause, bring into being, bring about, produce, engender, draw forth, elicit, create, set going, set afoot, result in, lead to, prompt, awaken, arouse, excite, summon up, activate, evoke, induce, kindle, incite, stir up, trigger, spark off, provoke, instigate, foment, whip up;

literary beget, enkindle.

▷antonyms allay, end.

13 North American most parents manage to raise their children successfully:

bring up, rear, nurture, look after, care for, take care of, provide for, mother, parent, tend, protect, cherish;

educate, train, foster.

14 he raised cattle in Nebraska:

breed, rear, nurture, keep, tend.

15 wheat is also raised in considerable quantity:

grow, farm, cultivate, produce, propagate, bring on;

plant.

16 he was raised to the peerage:

promote, advance, upgrade, elevate, prefer, ennoble, aggrandize, exalt, give a higher rank to, give advancement to;

informal kick upstairs.

▷antonyms demote.

17 raids across the border raised the spectre of civil war:

cause to appear, call up, call forth, invoke, summon (up), conjure up.

▷antonyms lay.

18 Alfonso at once raised the siege of Saragossa:

end, stop, bring to an end, put an end to, terminate, abandon, lift.

▷antonyms start, impose.

19 British, informal see if you can raise them on the radio:

contact, get in touch with, get hold of, reach, communicate with;

phone, radio, call;

British get on to.

noun

North American

he wanted a raise and some extra leave:

rise, pay/wage/salary increase, increment.

raise Oxford Dictionary of English