reyse
/ɹeɪz/
reyse is the obsolete form of raise.
Verb
reyse (third-person singular simple present reyses, present participle reysing, simple past and past participle reysed)
- To go on a military expedition.
- To journey or travel.
Meaning of raise
Verb
raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)
- 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
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- to raise a wall, or a heap of stones
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- to raise Sandy Hook light
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!
Forms of reyse
| third-person singular present | reyses |
|---|---|
| present participle | reysing |
| past participle | reysed |
| past | reysed |
Origin of reyse
From Middle English reysen (“to travel, journey, go on a military expedition”), probably from Middle Dutch reisen, resen (compare Old English rāsian (“to explore”)), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *raisōn (“to set out, depart, journey”). Cognate with Danish rejse (“to travel”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), German reisen (“to travel”), Norwegian reise (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). See also reys.
Words that rhyme with reyse
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- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about reyse
- What does reyse mean?
- Reyse means to go on a military expedition.
- What is reyse the obsolete form of?
- Reyse is the obsolete form of raise.
- What part of speech is reyse?
- Reyse is a verb.
- How do you pronounce reyse?
- Reyse is pronounced /ɹeɪz/.
- What is the past tense of reyse?
- The past tense of reyse is reysed.
Words near reyse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reyse (page history and authors); raise (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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