<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me.</li><li>to get up from bed, especially to begin the day after a night's sleep: to rise early.</li><li>to become erect and stiff, as the hair in fright.</li><li>to get up after falling or being thrown down.</li><li>to become active in opposition or resistance; revolt or rebel.</li><li>to be built up, erected, or constructed.</li><li>to spring up or grow, as plants: Weeds rose overnight.</li><li>to become prominent on or project from a surface, as a blister.</li><li>to come into existence; appear.</li><li>to come into action, as a wind or storm.</li><li>to occur: A quarrel rose between them.</li><li>to originate, issue, or be derived; to have a source.</li><li>to move from a lower to a higher position; move upward; ascend: The bird rose in the air.</li><li>to ascend above the horizon, as a heavenly body.</li><li>to extend directly upward; project vertically: The tower rises to a height of 60 feet.</li><li>to have an upward slant or curve: The path rises as it approaches the woods.</li><li>to attain higher rank, status, or importance or a higher economic level: to rise in the world.</li><li>to advance to a higher level of action, thought, feeling, etc.: to rise above the commonplace.</li><li>to come up toward the surface of the water in pursuit of food or bait.</li><li>to prove oneself equal to a demand, emergency, etc. (followed by to): to rise to the occasion; to rise to one's responsibilities.</li><li>to become animated, cheerful, or heartened, as the spirits.</li><li>to become roused or stirred: to feel one's temper rising.</li><li>to increase in height, as the level of water: The river rose thirty feet in eight hours.</li><li>to swell or puff up, as dough from the action of yeast.</li><li>to increase in amount, as prices.</li><li>to increase in price or value, as commodities.</li><li>to increase in degree, intensity, or force, as fever, color, etc.</li><li>to become louder or of higher pitch, as the voice.</li><li>to adjourn or close a session, as a deliberative body or court.</li><li>to return from the dead: Christ rose from the dead and on the third day ascended into heaven.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to cause to rise.</li><li>to cause (something) to rise above the visible horizon by approaching nearer to it; raise.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of rising.</li><li>appearance above the horizon, as of the sun or moon.</li><li>elevation or increase in rank, fortune, influence, power, etc.: the rise and fall of ancient Rome.</li><li>an increase in height, as of the level of water.</li><li>the amount of such increase.</li><li>an increase in amount, as of prices.</li><li>an increase in price or value, as of commodities.</li><li>an increase in degree or intensity, as of temperature.</li><li>an increase in loudness or in pitch, as of the voice.</li><li>the measured height of any of various things, as a roof, a flight of steps, a stair step, or the crown of a road.</li><li>the vertical distance through which the floor of an elevator or the like passes.</li><li>origin, source, or beginning: the rise of a stream in a mountain.</li><li>a coming into existence or notice: the rise of a new talent.</li><li>extension upward.</li><li>the amount of such extension.</li><li>upward slope, as of ground or a road.</li><li>a piece of rising or high ground: a house built upon a gentle rise.</li><li>the distance between the crotch and the waist of a pair of trousers: Pants with a high rise are now in style.</li><li>the coming up of a fish toward the surface in pursuit of food or bait.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to ignore or be indifferent to, as an insult.</li></ul>