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Rise

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.

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Verb group 8

Develop 84% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Develop 84% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Raise 84% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Raise 84% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Resurrect 84% connected

To take from the grave; to disinter.

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Resurrect 84% connected

To take from the grave; to disinter.

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Manner of action 29

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Ascend 76% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Bubble 76% connected

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

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Bull 76% connected

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Climb 76% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Emerge 76% connected

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hulk 76% connected

The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

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Intumesce 76% connected

To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Loom 76% connected

See Loon, the bird.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Mutiny 76% connected

Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful…

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Predominate 76% connected

To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, lo…

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Revolt 76% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Rocket 76% connected

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

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Skyrocket 76% connected

A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

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Soar 76% connected

To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

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Steam 76% connected

The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.

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Surge 76% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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Swell 76% connected

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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Tower 76% connected

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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Uplift 76% connected

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Well 76% connected

An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.

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zoom 76% connected

To move or travel very quickly

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Broader term 38

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Ascend 76% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Become 76% connected

of Become

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Dissent 76% connected

To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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Emergence 76% connected

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Growth 76% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Inception 76% connected

Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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Incline 76% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Increment 76% connected

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Origin 76% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Origination 76% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Protest 76% connected

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Resist 76% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Slope 76% connected

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Tackle 76% connected

Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the bl…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Undertake 76% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Vary 76% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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Wave 76% connected

See Waive.

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Climb 76% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Climbing 76% connected

of Climb

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Elevation 76% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Heave 76% connected

To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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Heaving 76% connected

of Heave

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Levitation 76% connected

Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Mounting 76% connected

of Mount

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Raising 76% connected

of Raise

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Soar 76% connected

To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Upheaval 76% connected

The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.

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Uphill 76% connected

Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.

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Uplift 76% connected

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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Uplifting 76% connected

of Uplift

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Upthrow 76% connected

To throw up.

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Wave 76% connected

See Waive.

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zoom 76% connected

To move or travel very quickly

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Ascend 74% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Ascend 74% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Ascendent 74% connected

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

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Ascendent 74% connected

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

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Ascension 74% connected

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

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Ascension 74% connected

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

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Ascensional 74% connected

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.

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Ascensional 74% connected

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.

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Climb 74% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Climb 74% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Outgrowth 74% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Outgrowth 74% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Procession 74% connected

The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.

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Procession 74% connected

The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.

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Raise 74% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Raise 74% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Rising 74% connected

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Rising 74% connected

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Surface 74% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Surface 74% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Waxing 74% connected

of Wax

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Waxing 74% connected

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Synonym 27

Acclivity 92% connected

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; asce…

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Advance 92% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Arise 92% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Ascend 92% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Ascending 92% connected

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Ascension 92% connected

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

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Ascent 92% connected

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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Boost 92% connected

To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.

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Climb 92% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Develop 92% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Emanation 92% connected

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

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Grow 92% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Heighten 92% connected

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

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Jump 92% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Lift 92% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mount 92% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Originate 92% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Procession 92% connected

The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Prove 92% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Raise 92% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Rear 92% connected

Early; soon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Rebel 92% connected

Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Resurrect 92% connected

To take from the grave; to disinter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Rising 92% connected

of Rise

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Surface 92% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Uprise 92% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Wax 92% connected

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Near synonym 1

Increase 92% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

quantity 82% interchangeable

Rise is often intransitive, while increase can be transitive or intransitive.

Prices increased. / Prices rose.

Antonym 4

Downfall 94% connected

A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Downfall 94% connected

A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Wane 94% connected

To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Wane 94% connected

To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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