RAISES Synonyms: 514 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of raise

as in lifts

to move from a lower to a higher place or position he asked members of the audience to raise their hands if they had been to his show before

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as in fosters

to bring to maturity through care and education since she was only two when her mother died, the girl was raised mainly by her aunt

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as in provokes

to bring (something volatile or intense) into being a proposal to cover the library's red brick with vinyl siding raised a mighty ruckus with those favoring historical preservation

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as in elicits

to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved) the lawsuit raised old resentments that had never been completely extinguished

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as in erects

to fix in an upright position the mattress will fit into the moving truck only if we raise it on its side

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as in builds

to form by putting together parts or materials raised a memorial on the site of the historic event

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as in grows

to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care raises ducks, geese, and other exotic fowl ultimately destined for the dinner table

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as in increases

to make greater in size, amount, or number the multiplex raised the ticket price

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as in promotes

to move higher in rank or position he was recently raised to lieutenant in the fire department

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as in introduces

to present or bring forward for discussion one member of the tour raised the subject of appropriate attire for visits to sacred sites in the Holy Land

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as in expresses

to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion) too afraid to raise an objection

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raises

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noun

plural of raise

as in boosts

something added (as by growth) the school board approved a raise in the maximum family income for students qualifying for reduced-price lunches

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Recent Examples of raises

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Cornyn raises alarms about Democrats On the campaign trail, Cornyn warned that the path to a blue wave in Texas runs through Paxton and could cost the party control of the Senate. —

Claudia Grisales, NPR, 26 May 2026 Long-term reliance on substitutes is not a sustainable solution and raises important questions about instructional quality and compliance. —

Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 26 May 2026 Apart from the uncertainty, his shock departure raises serious questions over BP’s due diligence processes for selecting C-Suite executives and officers of the company. —

Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 The idea of a perimeter raises interesting questions about territory on the Moon. —

Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026 The run raises money for organizations working to prevent violence. —

Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 26 May 2026 One of Mutt Strutt’s newest features is a Top Dog competition in which whoever raises the most money for Fry will have the person’s dog featured on a banner hanging in La Jolla’s Village in November. —

Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026 The additional $100 million in the 2027 budget — about $72 million in state funding, with the rest coming from federal and other sources — was intended to boost future retiree raises on an ongoing basis. —

David Wickert, AJC.com, 19 May 2026 Chronic short sleep raises blood pressure, impairs glucose metabolism and is linked to higher rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression and anxiety. —

Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026

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School districts would decide on their own what kind of raises and health insurance to give teachers and other union employees. —

Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2026 Raman has argued that Bass has thrown too much money at the LAPD, with raises for police officers coming at the expense of other basic services such as park maintenance and street paving. —

Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026 In other words, people get raises and increase their spending on things like bigger houses and fancier cars — but don’t also adjust their savings upwards, advisors said. —

Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 May 2026 The Indian Prairie School District 204 board has OK’d raises for administrative and non-union employees for next school year, and formally approved a four-year contract for support staff, which includes pay hikes in the coming years. —

Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026 Instead, 100,000 workers got raises, and spent them. —

Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026 This is a company building data center infrastructure at scale, financed by preferred equity raises and a $1 billion working capital loan from OpenAI that is subject to immediate repayment if the Master Relationship Agreement between the two companies is terminated. —

Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026 All three will be due for raises on their next contracts. —

Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 20 May 2026 The raises are tied to legislation passed by the City Council in 2022, that included language that prohibited pay hikes from becoming effective until the following mayoral election, which was last year, and council election, in the fall of 2023 — due to state ethics laws. —

Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 19 May 2026

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The rescue echoes a famous scene in episode two of The Mandalorian when Grogu lifts a rampaging Mudhorn to save Djarin, which was already a homage to Yoda levitating the ship on Dagobah during the original trilogy.

— Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
The breath hold is believed to further raise vagal tone, which brings down stress hormones and lifts heart rate variability.

— Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026