raise
- Verb. To cause to rise.
- Verb. To collect.
- Verb. To bring up; to grow.
- Verb. (poker) To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- Verb. (legal) To create; to constitute (a ''use'', or a beneficial interest in property).
- Verb. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- Verb. (linguistics, transitive) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- Noun. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (qualifier, UK) .
- Noun. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- Noun. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- Noun. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
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