Synonyms:
| arise, | ascend, | emanate, | flow, | issue, | proceed, | spring. |
To rise is to move up or upward whether slowly or quickly,[320] whether through the least or greatest distance; the waves rise; the mists rise; the river rises after heavy rains; as said of persons, to rise is to come to an erect position after kneeling, sitting, reclining, or lying down; as, to rise from a sick-bed; my friend rose as I entered; the guests rose to depart; so a deliberative assembly or a committee is said to rise when it breaks up a session; a sun or star rises when to our apprehension it comes above the horizon and begins to go up the sky. To ascend is to go far upward, and is often used in a stately sense; as, Christ ascended to heaven. The shorter form rise is now generally preferred to the longer form arise, except in poetic or elevated style. The sun rises or arises; the river springs at a bound from the foot of the glacier and flows through the lands to the ocean. Smoke issues from a chimney and ascends toward the sky. Light and heat emanate from the sun.
Antonyms:
| decline, | descend, | drop, | fall, | go down, | set, | settle, | sink. |
Prepositions:
Rise from slumber; rise to duty; rise at the summons; we rose with the lark.