The meaning of RAISE is to cause or help to rise to a standing position. How to use raise in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Raise.

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the …

RAISING definition: a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of …

Nonetheless, people have been raising children in English since the 1700s, and the usage has been standard for many generations, at least in American English. The Usage Panelists find …

Her parents died when she was a baby and she was raised by her grandparents. The lambs had to be raised by hand (= fed milk by people) when their mother died. The farmer raises (= …

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Raising is usually a transitive verb, meaning it typically requires an object and implies that someone or something is actively lifting or elevating something else. Conversely, rising is …

elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about. to set upright: When the projection screen toppled, he quickly raised it again.

The oldest staff maintained discipline often just with the raising of an eyebrow and rarely shouted.

He raises [= breeds] chickens on his farm. They're raising [= growing] corn this year.