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given rise to

given rise to is the past participle of give rise to.

Meaning of give rise to

Verb

give rise to (third-person singular simple present gives rise to, present participle giving rise to, simple past gave rise to, past participle given rise to)

  1. (transitive) To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.
    Synonyms:
    engender, spawn

Questions about given rise to

What is given rise to the past participle of?
Given rise to is the past participle of give rise to.

Words near given rise to in the dictionary

  1. given over
  2. given pause
  3. given paw
  4. given place
  5. given pursuit
  6. given rise to
  7. given somebody time
  8. given someone a big head
  9. given someone a bloody nose
  10. given someone a break
  11. given someone a hand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: given rise to (page history and authors); give rise to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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