raising

Plural: raisings

Noun

• The act of lifting or elevating; an elevated part.
• the event of something being raised upward
  • "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
• Elevation.
• Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
• Recruitment.
• Collection or gathering, especially of money.
• The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
• The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
• A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
• The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
• The substance used to make bread rise.
• The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Verb

• raise the level or amount of something
• raise from a lower to a higher position
• cause to be heard or known; express or utter
• collect funds for a specific purpose
• cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
• bring up
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
• move upwards
• construct, build, or erect
• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
• create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
• raise in rank or condition
• increase
• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
• cause to puff up with a leaven
• bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
• bet more than the previous player
• cause to assemble or enlist in the military
• put forward for consideration or discussion
• pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
• activate or stir up
• establish radio communications with
• multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
• bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
• invigorate or heighten
• put an end to
• cause to become alive again
  • "Upraising ghosts"
• present participle and gerund of raise

Adjective Satellite

• increasing in quantity or value
  • "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"

Examples

• A strategic RAISING of letters created an opportunity for a bonus word.

Synonyms

advance, arouse, breeding, bring up, bringing up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, elevate, elevation, elicit, enhance, enkindle, erect, evoke, farm, fire, fosterage, fostering, get up, grow, heighten, invoke, kick upstairs, kindle, leaven, levy, lift, nurture, parent, produce, promote, prove, provoke, put forward, put up, raise, rear, rearing, recruit, resurrect, set up, stir, upbringing, upgrade, upraise

Antonyms

demote, level, lower

Related Words

Canadian raising, NEG-raising, barn raising, consciousness-raising, don't get above your raising, eyebrow-raising, fire-raising, fireraising, fund-raising, hair raising, hair-raising, neg-raising, negative raising, net-raising, raising agent, raising board, raising gig, raising piece, raising plate, raising sim, revenue raising, self-raising, self-raising flour

Anagrams of raising