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rais'd

rais'd is the simple past and past participle of raise.

Meaning of raise

Verb

raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)

  1. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
    • to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself
    1. (physical) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
      • to raise a wall, or a heap of stones
    2. (physical) To cause something to come to the surface of water.
      • The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.
    3. (physical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
      • to raise Sandy Hook light
    4. (physical) To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
    5. (figuratively, physical) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
      • The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!

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Questions about rais'd

What is rais'd the simple past and past participle of?
Rais'd is the simple past and past participle of raise.

Words near rais'd in the dictionary

  1. raird
  2. rairds
  3. Rairigh
  4. Rairiz de Veiga
  5. rais
  6. rais'd
  7. Raisa
  8. raisable
  9. Raisanen
  10. Raisanens
  11. Raisbeck

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