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Resurge

To rise again; undergo resurgence
Her enthusiasm resurged.
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Rise

To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
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Resurge

To rise again; to go through a period of renewed vigor or vitality.
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To get out of bed
Rose at dawn.
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Resurge

A resurgence.
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Rise

To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend
Hot air rises.
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Rise again;
His need for a meal resurged
The candidate resurged after leaving politics for several years
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To increase in size, volume, or level
The river rises every spring.
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To increase in number, amount, or value
Prices are rising.
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To increase in intensity, force, or speed
The wind has risen.
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Rise

To increase in pitch or volume
The sound of their voices rose and fell.
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To ascend above the horizon
The moon rose an hour after sunset.
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To extend upward; be prominent
The tower rose above the hill.
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To slant or slope upward
Denali rises to nearly 6,200 meters.
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To come into existence; originate
Bitterness that rose from hard experience.
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To be erected
New buildings are rising in the city.
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To appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.
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To puff up or become larger; swell up
The bread dough should rise to double its original size.
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To become stiff and erect
The hair rose on the cat's neck.
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To attain a higher status
An officer who rose through the ranks.
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To become apparent to the mind or senses
Old fears rose to haunt me.
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To uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge
She rose to the occasion and won the election.
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To return to life
Rose from the dead.
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To rebel
"the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government" (Abraham Lincoln).
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To close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.
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To cause to rise
The dogs will rise the pheasants.
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To cause (a distant object at sea) to become visible above the horizon by advancing closer.
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The act of rising; an ascent.
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The degree of elevation or ascent.
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The first appearance of a celestial object as it ascends above the horizon.
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An increase in height, as of the level of water.
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A gently sloped hill.
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A long broad elevation that slopes gently from the earth's surface or the ocean floor.
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An origin, beginning, or source
The rise of the novel.
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Occasion or opportunity
Facts that give rise to doubts about her motives.
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The emergence of a fish seeking food or bait at the water's surface.
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An increase in price, worth, quantity, or degree.
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An increase in intensity, volume, or pitch.
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Elevation in status, prosperity, or importance
The family's rise in New York society.
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The height of a flight of stairs or of a single riser.
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Chiefly British An increase in salary or wages; a raise.
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(Informal) An angry or irritated reaction
Finally got a rise out of her.
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The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear.
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(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
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To move upwards.
We watched the balloon rise.
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To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
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To slope upward.
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
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(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
The sun was rising in the East.
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To become erect; to assume an upright position.
To rise from a chair or from a fall
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To leave one's bed; to get up.
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(figurative) To be resurrected.
He rose from the grave;
He is risen!
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(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
The committee rose after agreeing to the report.
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Rise

(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
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To attain a higher status.
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Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
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To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
To rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence;
A story rises in interest.
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To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To rise a tone or semitone
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To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
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To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
To rise to the occasion
Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
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To develop.
As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.
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To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
Has that dough risen yet?
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(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
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To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
A noise rose on the air;
Odour rises from the flower
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To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
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To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
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(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
To rise a hill
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(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
To rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
To rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
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(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
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To come; to offer itself.
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To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
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The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The rise of the tide.
There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
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The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
The rise of the working class.
The rise of the printing press.
The rise of the feminists.
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An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
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Ellipsis of pay risean increase in wage or salary.
The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
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The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
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(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
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An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
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(informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.
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(architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
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Alternative form of rice
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: - (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
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To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
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To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
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To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
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To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
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To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
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To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
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To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
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To increase in power or fury; - said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
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In various figurative senses.
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To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
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To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
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To become of higher value; to increase in price.
Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce.
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To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
At our heels all hell should riseWith blackest insurrection.
No more shall nation against nation rise.
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To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
But now is Christ risen from the dead.
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To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
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To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
A scepter shall rise out of Israel.
Honor and shame from no condition rise.
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To become larger; to swell; - said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
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To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
It was near nine . . . before the House rose.
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To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
He that would thrive, must rise by five.
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To increase in intensity; - said of heat.
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To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; - said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
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To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
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To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
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To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
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To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.
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To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; - said of a form.
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To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
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To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
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To come; to offer itself.
There chanced to the prince's hand to riseAn ancient book.
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To retire; to give up a siege.
He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone.
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To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
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To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.
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To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise.
Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.
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The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
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The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
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Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
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Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
All wickednes taketh its rise from the heart.
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Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
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Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
The rise or fall that may happen in his constant revenue by a Spanish war.
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Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
The ordinary rises and falls of the voice.
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Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
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The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
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A growth in strength or number or importance
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The act of changing location in an upward direction
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An upward slope or grade (as in a road);
The car couldn't make it up the rise
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A movement upward;
They cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
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The amount a salary is increased;
He got a 3% raise
He got a wage hike
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The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
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A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost;
The emanation of the Holy Spirit
The rising of the Holy Ghost
The doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son
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An increase in cost;
They asked for a 10% rise in rates
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Increase in price or value;
The news caused a general advance on the stock market
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Move upward;
The fog lifted
The smoke arose from the forest fire
The mist uprose from the meadows
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Increase in value or to a higher point;
Prices climbed steeply
The value of our house rose sharply last year
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Rise to one's feet;
The audience got up and applauded
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Rise up;
The building rose before them
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Come to the surface
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Become more extreme;
The tension heightened
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Come into existence; take on form or shape;
A new religious movement originated in that country
A love that sprang up from friendship
The idea for the book grew out of a short story
An interesting phenomenon uprose
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Be promoted, move to a better position
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Go up or advance;
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
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Get up and out of bed;
I get up at 7 A.M. every day
They rose early
He uprose at night
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Rise in rank or status;
Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list
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Increase in volume;
The dough rose slowly in the warm room
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Become heartened or elated;
Her spirits rose when she heard the good news
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Exert oneself to meet a challenge;
Rise to a challenge
Rise to the occasion
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Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
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Come up, of celestial bodies;
The sun also rises
The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
Jupiter ascends
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Return from the dead;
Christ is risen!
The dead are to uprise
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