Raise
To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
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Raise Quotations
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
Raise Translations
raise in Afrikaans is oplei, aanhou, optrek, teel
raise in Dutch is opfokken, telen, fokken, opkweken
raise in Finnish is nostaa, kasvattaa
raise in German is steigern, erheben, aufsteigen
raise in Latin is libero, tollo sustuli sublatum, erigo ; erexi
raise in Portuguese is aumento
raise in Spanish is establecer, levantar, entonar, realzar, alza
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