Word Meanings - ARISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the

Additional info about word: ARISE

1. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning. 2. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton. 3. To proceed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARISE)

• Begin
• Initiate
• commence
• prepare
• start
• originate
• arise
• inaugurate
• Occur
• Befall
• happen
• betide
• supervene
• take place
• appear
• Proceed
• Move
• pass
• advance
• progress
• continue
• issue
• emanate
• flow
• Rise Ascend
• mount
• float
• soar
• grow
• tower
• slope
• emerge
• spring
• extend
• expand
• swell
• increase
• excel
• prosper
• climb

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ARISE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

Related words: (words related to ARISE)

• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• PROCEREBRUM
  The prosencephalon.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• REMERGE
  To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.