Raised Definition
Adjective: raised reyzd
- Located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
"a raised design"; "raised eyebrows"
- Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
"raised needlework"; "raised metalwork";
- brocaded, embossed
- Increased in amount or degree
"raised temperature";
- elevated
- Increase the level or amount of something
"raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"
- Take from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands";
- lift, elevate, get up, bring up
- Cause to be heard or known; express or utter
"raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
- Collect funds for a specific purpose
"The President raised several million dollars for his college"
- (farming) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
"We raise hogs here";
- grow, farm, produce
- Provide for and care for during childhood
"raise a family";
- rear, bring up, nurture, parent
- Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
"raise the spectre of unemployment";
- conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- Cause to move upwards
"raise one's eyes";
- lift
- (construction) Construct, build
"Raise a barn";
- erect, rear, set up, put up
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"raise a smile";
- arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, provoke
- Create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
"raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
- Increase in condition, wealth, quality of life, etc.
"The new law raised many people from poverty";
- lift, elevate
- Add something extra to make more intense or better
"This will raise your enjoyment";
- enhance, heighten, increase
- Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, elevate
- Cause to puff up with a leaven
- leaven, prove
- (bridge) bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- (card game) bet more than the previous player
- Cause to assemble or enlist in the military
"raise an army";
- recruit, levy
- Put forward for consideration or discussion
"raise the question of promotions";
- bring up
- Pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
"raise your 'o'"
- Activate or stir up
"raise a mutiny"
- (radio) establish radio communications with
"They managed to raise Hanoi last night"
- (arithmetic) multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- Bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
"raised edges"
- Invigorate or heighten
"raise my spirits";
- lift
- Put an end to
"raise a siege";
- lift
- Cause to become alive again
"raise from the dead";
- resurrect, upraise
Anagrams created from the word raised