How to pronounce raise in English

"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."