rise
- Noun. The action of moving upwards.
- Noun. (rfdef, lang en) .
- Noun. (chiefly, British) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc); a raise.
- Noun. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- Noun. (British, Ireland) An increase in someone's pay rate.
- Noun. (Sussex) A small hill (chiefly place names).
- Noun. (rfdef, lang en) .
- Verb. (intransitive) To move upwards.
- Verb. (intransitive, of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- Verb. (intransitive) To be resurrected.
- Verb. (intransitive) of a quantity, price, etc, To increase.
- Verb. (rfdef, lang en) .
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