Word Finder - rising

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To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

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To increase in value or standing.

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To begin; to develop.

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To go up; to ascend; to climb.

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to rise a hill

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To cause to go up or ascend.

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to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water

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To retire; to give up a siege.

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To come; to offer itself.

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To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

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Rebellion.

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The act of something that rises.

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the risings and fallings of a thermometer

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A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.

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salt rising; milk rising

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Going up.

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Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.

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More than; exceeding; upwards of.

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a horse rising six years of age

His temper was rising by the second.

He noted her rising color and shrugged.

The rising winter sun made the heavy clothing almost unnecessary.

She felt the hair rising on the back of her neck.

Loaves of bread were rising along one counter beneath thin cloths.

The history of the world is a history of rising prosperity.

Lana fumbled with her harness and yanked it free, slogging through the rising water.

Katie said, rising.  The ground still rumbled, the trees surrounding both food cubes expanding fast and tearing up the ground in several directions as they did.  She looked around, irritated to find she'd caused a chasm to form between them and the direction they'd been running.

They walked a short distance to an open atrium in the center of the house, complete with a small oasis rising up from white stone and curved benches.

Rachel noted her rising color and grinned.

He cupped his hand to her ear so she could hear over the howl of the rising wind.

He ignored the loaded words, rising instead.

With a startled gasp, she dashed into the cabin, struggling to shut the door against the rising wind.

There was a rising worldwide consumption of consumer goods.

Noting her rising color, he chuckled.

Darian asked, his anger rising another notch at the thought of Jenn with the Original Vamp.

On Mountains Much Seems To Depend On Whether There Are Rising Or Falling Air Currents, And Results From A Single Season May Not Be Fairly Representative.

This will be composed of a conduction and a convection current, the latter due to rising or falling air currents carrying ions.

She thought, hopes rising.

Below the falls, a crescent rainbow gave color to the rising mist while sparkles of ice formed from the spray.

As clichéd as it is to complain about rising rates of crime, the statistics tell a different story.

But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity.

He dropped the book, anger rising.

His voice was rising.

Rhyn asked, suspicion rising.

As suddenly as she appeared, Death was gone.  Anger rising, Kris looked around to make sure she really was gone then cursed.

It was pristine and white, rising out of the ground like a natural formation.

I won't ask any more favors, she said, spirits rising.

She waited until certain he was gone before rising.

The Babylonians looked on the world as a vast round mountain rising from the midst of a universal sheet of water.

As the Arctic Basin is shut off from the North Atlantic by ridges rising to within 300 fathoms of the surface and from the Pacific by the shallow shelf of the Bering Sea, and as the ice-laden East Greenland and Labrador currents consist of fresh surface water which cannot appreciably influence the underlying mass, the Arctic region has no practical effect upon the bottom temperature of the three great oceans, which is entirely dominated by the influence of the Antarctic. The existence of deep-lying and extensive rises or ridges in high southern latitudes has been indicated by the deep-sea temperature observations of Antarctic expeditions.

He passed the girl in his arms off to Jule, fury rising.

His action in abolishing all tolls established on the Rhine since 1250, led to the formation of a league against him by the Rhenish archbishops and the count palatine of the Rhine; but aided by the towns, he soon crushed the rising.

He gathered together a band of supporters, plans were drawn up, and at length all was ready for the rising.

He also found a± on the average about Io% larger when pressure was falling than when it was rising.

After the rising in Cheshire Cooper was arrested in Dorsetshire on a charge of corresponding with its leader Booth, but on the matter being investigated by the council he was unanimously acquitted.

He is stated also to have influenced the king in issuing his dispensing declaration of the 26th of December 1662, and he zealously supported a bill introduced for the purpose of confirming the declaration, rising thereby in favour and influence with Charles.

But Maximilian was regarded with suspicion by the states of Netherlands, and after suppressing a rising in Gelderland his position was further weakened by the death of his wife on the 27th of March 1482.

It is a hill rising 200 to 300 ft.

His political career had not prevented Martos from rising into note at the bar, where he was successful for forty years.

In 1068, after the failure of the first rising of the north, Edgar retired to Scotland, when his sister Margaret married the Scottish king, Malcolm Canmore.

Next year he returned to take part in the second rising, but, this proving no more successful than the first, he again took refuge in Scotland.

It is a mighty river, rising in the Rocky Mountains, and crossing eighteen degrees of longitude.

The one-pipe system is similar in principle, the pipe rising to its greatest height above the boiler and being then carried around as a single pipe falling all the while.

In 1679 the rising in Scotland which ended in the battle of Bothwell Bridge brought trouble on the Irish Presbyterians in spite of their loyal addresses disowning it.

The Misiones territory of the extreme north-east belongs to the older highlands of Brazil, is densely wooded, and has ranges of hills sometimes rising to a height of moo to 1300 ft.

The remainder of the great Argentine plain is the treeless, grassy pampa (Quichua for " level spaces "), apparently a dead level, but in reality rising gradually from the Atlantic westward toward the Andes.

Other small rivers rising in the Cordoba sierras are the Primero and Segundo, which flow into the lagoons of north-east Cordoba, and the Quinto, which flows south-easterly into the lagoons and morasses of southern Cordoba.

Embittered by his treatment in 1892, he openly preached the advisability of an armed rising to overthrow the existing administration.

While these disturbances were taking place in the province of Buenos Aires, another revolutionary rising was in progress in Santa Fe.