English Dictionary

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
Source : opted (131597)  - auto

To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
Source : opted (131598)  - auto

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
Source : opted (131599)  - auto

To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
Source : opted (131600)  - auto

To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
Source : opted (131601)  - auto

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
Source : opted (131602)  - auto

To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
Source : opted (131603)  - auto

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
Source : opted (131604)  - auto

To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
Source : opted (131605)  - auto

To retire; to give up a siege.
Source : opted (131606)  - auto