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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elevated |
| Synonyms: | built, constructed, embossed, erected, heightened, hoisted, lifted |
| Antonyms: | lowered, reduced, taken down |
| Main Entry: | raised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | produced |
| Synonyms: | bred, cultivated, grown, harvested, made |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift; build from the ground |
| Synonyms: | boost, bring up, construct, elevate, erect, establish, exalt, heave, hoist, hold up, lever, lift, lift up, mount, move up, place up, promote, pry, pull up, put on its end, put up, rear, run up, set up, set upright, shove, stand up, take up, throw up, upcast, upheave, uplift, upraise, uprear |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | demolish, destroy, drop, lower, raze |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start up, motivate; introduce |
| Synonyms: | abet, activate, advance, arouse, awaken, bring up, broach, cause, evoke, excite, foment, foster, incite, instigate, kindle, moot, motivate, provoke, put forward, resurrect, set, set on, stir up, suggest, whip up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | conclude, finish, stop |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nurture, care for |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, cultivate, develop, drag up, fetch up, foster, group, grow, nourish, nurse, plant, produce, propagate, provide, rear, sow, suckle, support, train, wean |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, ignore, neglect, repress, suppress |
| Main Entry: | above |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | higher in position |
| Synonyms: | aloft, atop, beyond, high, on high, on top of, over, overhead, raised, superior, upon |
| Antonyms: | below, under |
| Main Entry: | convex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rounded, curving outward |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, biconvex, bulged, bulging, bulgy, gibbous, outcurved, protuberant, raised |
| Notes: | convex (from Latin convexus 'arched, vaulted') refers to a surface that curves outward, concave (from Latin concavus 'hollow') to a surface that curves inward |
| Antonyms: | concave, depressed, sinking |
| Main Entry: | elevated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | raised up |
| Synonyms: | aerial, high, high-rise, lifted, raised, stately, tall, towering, upheaved, uplifted, upraised, uprisen |
| Antonyms: | base, decreased, dropped, lessened, lowered, lowly |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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