rising

Plural: risings

Noun

• An act of moving upwards or an uprising.
• a movement upward
• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
• Rebellion.
• The act of something that rises.
• A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.

Verb

• move upward
• increase in value or to a higher point
• rise to one's feet
• rise up
• come to the surface
• come into existence; take on form or shape
• move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
• go up or advance
• become more extreme
• get up and out of bed
• rise in rank or status
• become heartened or elated
• exert oneself to meet a challenge
• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
• increase in volume
• come up, of celestial bodies
  • "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."
• return from the dead
• present participle and gerund of rise

Adjective

• advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
  • "a rising trend"
  • "a rising market"

Adjective Satellite

• sloping upward
• coming to maturity
  • "the rising generation"
• newly come into prominence
  • "a rising young politician"

Adj

• Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
• Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.
• Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.

Prep

• More than; exceeding; upwards of.

Examples

• milk rising
• salt rising
• The "RISING" tension in the game was palpable as the scores drew close.
• the risings and fallings of a thermometer

Synonyms

acclivitous, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, climb, climb up, come up, develop, emerging, get up, go up, grow, heighten, insurrection, jump, lift, mount, move up, originate, prove, rear, rebel, rebellion, resurrect, revolt, rise, rise up, spring up, stand up, surface, turn out, uphill, uprise, uprising, wax, rousant, surgerant

Antonyms

fall, falling, go to bed, lie down, set, sit down, turn in, wane

Related Words

rise

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