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raisingverbpresent participle of raise to move from a lower to a higher place or positionhe asked members of the audience to raise their hands if they had been to his show before boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, taking up, upholding, uplifting, upping, upraising ascending, mounting, risingrearing, upending dropping, lowering descending, dipping, falling, pitching, plunging, slippingbearing, depressing, pressing, pushingsinking, submerging to bring to maturity through care and educationsince she was only two when her mother died, the girl was raised mainly by her aunt breeding, bringing up, fostering, nourishing, nursing, rearing fathering, motheringattending, caring (for), cradling, cultivating, minding, ministering (to), nurturing, watchingdisciplining, educating, instructing, mentoring, schooling, teaching, training, tutoringedifying, enlightening, indoctrinatingfeeding, providing (for), supplyingadvancing, forwarding, furthering, promotingpreparingdirecting, guiding, leading, shepherding, showing abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, maltreating, mishandling, mistreatingignoring, neglectingharming, hurting, injuring to bring (something volatile or intense) into beinga proposal to cover the library's red brick with vinyl siding raised a mighty ruckus with those favoring historical preservation abetting, brewing, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, instigating, picking, provoking, stirring (up), whipping (up) advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulatingdetonating, setting, setting off, triggeringexciting, galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousingactivating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing setting in motion bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, tamingallaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved)the lawsuit raised old resentments that had never been completely extinguished educing, eliciting, evoking, inspiring dragging, dredging (up), extorting, extracting, pulling, wangling, wresting, wringingcoaxing (out), gaining, getting, obtaining, procuring, securingbaring, disclosing, discovering, divulging, evincing, exposing, revealing, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking, unveiling calling forth disregarding, forgetting, ignoring, missing, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over to fix in an upright positionthe mattress will fit into the moving truck only if we raise it on its side erecting, pitching, putting up, rearing, setting up, upending, upraising bracing, buttressing, propping (up), shoring (up), supportingboosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, upholding, uplifting, upping demolishing, flattening, knocking down, leveling(or levelling), razing, tearing down to form by putting together parts or materialsraised a memorial on the site of the historic event assembling, building, confecting, constructing, erecting, fabricating, making, making up, piecing, putting up, rearing, setting up carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingprefabricatingbeginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originatingconstituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying(British), retrofittingjerry-building, rigging (up), throwing upcombining, uniting putting together demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, knocking down, striking, taking down, tearing down demolishing, destroying, devastating, flattening, leveling(or levelling), pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruinating, ruining, shattering, smashing, wreckingblowing up, explodingdetaching, disengagingdisconnecting, disjoining, disuniting, dividing, separating to look after or assist the growth of by labor and careraises ducks, geese, and other exotic fowl ultimately destined for the dinner table cropping, cultivating, culturing, dressing, growing, promoting, rearing, tending breeding, producing, propagatingplanting, sowinggathering, gleaning, harvesting, reapinggerminating, quickening, ripening, rooting, sprouting killingdigging, extirpating, picking, plucking, pulling (up), uprootingcutting, haying, mowing to make greater in size, amount, or numberthe multiplex raised the ticket price accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching to move higher in rank or positionhe was recently raised to lieutenant in the fire department advancing, elevating, promoting, upgrading forwarding, furtheringaggrandizing, boosting, heightening, improving, lifting, upliftingcommissioning, ennobling, knightingacclaiming, applauding, celebrating, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decoratingeulogizing, exalting, extolling, glorifying, hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting kicking upstairs abasing, degrading, demoting, downgrading, lowering, reducing deposing, dethroning, dismissing, expelling, impeaching, ousting, overthrowing, removing, unmaking, unseatingdemeaning, disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, mortifying, shaming, taking downcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, reprobating to present or bring forward for discussionone member of the tour raised the subject of appropriate attire for visits to sacred sites in the Holy Land bringing up, broaching, introducing, mooting, placing alluding (to), citing, mentioning, naming, referring (to)offering, proposing, suggestingairing, expressing, speaking (of), talking (about), ventilating, ventinginterjecting, interruptingdebating, discussing, thrashing (out or over) censoring, hushing (up), quieting, silencing, suppressing to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)too afraid to raise an objection airing, expounding, expressing, giving, looking, sounding, stating, ventilating, venting, voicing advertising, announcing, declaring, enouncing, enunciating, proclaiming, sayingbroadcasting, circulating, disseminating, publishingdescribing, writing, writing upsounding off, speaking out, speaking upchiming incommunicating, conveying, putting across, putting overoffering, submitting giving air to, putting forth stifling, suppressing censoring, restraining, restricting |