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say it: rayz
raise is a verb and noun meaning "raise the level or amount of something". It is pronounced /ˈɹeɪz/ — rayz. It carries 31 recorded senses.
collect funds for a specific purpose
“The President raised several million dollars for his college”
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
“raise the specter of unemployment”
“he conjured wild birds in the air”
“call down the spirits from the mountain”
create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
“raise hell”
“raise the roof”
“raise Cain”
increase
“This will enhance your enjoyment”
“heighten the tension”
give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
“John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired”
“Women tend not to advance in the major law firms”
“I got promoted after many years of hard work”
pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
“raise your `o'”
multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
arithmetic
cause to become alive again
“raise from the dead”
“Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected”
“Upraising ghosts”
the act of raising something
“he responded with a lift of his eyebrow”
“fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for raise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.