raises

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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