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Nouns (13)

rise

n. a growth in strength or number or importance

lift, rise

n. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

advance, rise

n. increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"

rise, boost, hike, cost increase

n. an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"

rise, ascent, ascension, ascending

n. the act of changing location in an upward direction

Verbs (40)

rise

v. exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"

rise

v. of substances

rise

v. become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"

give

v. perform for an audience; "Pollini is giving another concert in New York"

give

v. emit or utter; "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp"

give

v. occur; "what gives?"

give

v. manifest or show; "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering"

give

v. consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man; "She gave herself to many men"

give

v. propose; "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party"

give

v. give (as medicine); "I gave him the drug"

give

v. proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"

give

v. cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"

give

v. submit for consideration, judgment, or use; "give one's opinion"; "give an excuse"

give

v. guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion; "You gave me to think that you agreed with me"

give

v. present to view; "He gave the sign to start"

heighten, rise

v. become more extreme; "The tension heightened"

rise, prove

v. increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"

give, yield

v. cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory"

feed, give

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

grant, give

v. bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"

give, leave with

v. leave with; give temporarily; "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"; "Can I give you the children for the weekend?"

rebel, arise, rise, rise up

v. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

rise, lift, rear

v. rise up; "The building rose before them"

resurrect, rise, uprise

v. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"

rise, go up, climb

v. increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

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Fuzzynyms (116)

jump, leap

n. a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"

ascension

n. (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

billow, surge

n. a large sea wave

escalation

n. an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; "higher wages caused an escalation of prices"; "there was a gradual escalation of hostilities"

march

n. a steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of time"

development

n. act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"

build

v. develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

confabulate

v. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

recount

v. count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

rehearse, practise, practice

v. engage in a rehearsal (of)

confabulate

v. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

transcribe

v. write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

read, register, show, record

v. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

transliterate, transcribe

v. rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

transcribe

v. make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

place, put, set

v. estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

treat, care for

v. provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"

poultice, plaster

v. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

transfer

v. move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital"

refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with

v. be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

confer, bestow

v. present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"

check

v. hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping; "Check your coat at the door"

leave, entrust

v. put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care"

keep, look after, have charge of

v. look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego

v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"

worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate

v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

burgeon

v. grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

rocket

v. propel with a rocket

enhance

v. make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

build

v. develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

crop, browse, graze, range, pasture

v. feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

devour, down, consume, go through

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

devour, guttle, raven, pig

v. eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

feed on, feed upon

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

feed, feast

v. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

forage

v. wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

leave, allow for, allow, provide

v. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

award, grant

v. give as judged due or on the basis of merit; "the referee awarded a free kick to the team"; "the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff";"Funds are granted to qualified researchers"

accord, allot, grant

v. allow to have; "grant a privilege"

repudiate

v. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"

intensify

v. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow

v. come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

build

v. develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

Synonyms (6)

yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under

v. consent reluctantly

hand

v. guide or conduct or usher somewhere; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi"

Antonyms (14)

fall, downfall

n. a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"

decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down

n. the act of decreasing or reducing something

decrease, decrement

n. the amount by which something decreases

decrease, lessen, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

starve

v. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

deprive

v. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

quench

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"

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