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raise 
noun
- the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike"
Synonyms: hike, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn''t make it up the rise"
Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, rise, upgrade Antonyms: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope - increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); "I''ll see your raise and double it"
- the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
Synonyms: heave, lift
verb
- raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"
- raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, lift Antonyms: lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down - 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"
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
Synonyms: farm, grow, produce - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, rear - evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, stir - move upwards; "lift one''s eyes"
Synonyms: lift - construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
Synonyms: erect, put up, rear, set up Antonyms: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke - create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
- raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
Synonyms: elevate, lift - increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"
Synonyms: enhance, heighten - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade Antonyms: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs - cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
Synonyms: leaven, prove - in bridge: bid (one''s partner''s suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
Synonyms: levy, recruit - put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic"
Synonyms: 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"
- establish radio communications with; "They managed to raise Hanoi last night"
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges"
- invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
Synonyms: lift - put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
Synonyms: lift - cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
Synonyms: resurrect, upraise
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