n
(archaic) betterment, raised status or condition.
v
(transitive) To amplify; to increase the power, interest, intensity, volume, etc. of (something).
n
An increase; a racheting up.
v
To raise; to set up; to stir up.
n
The act of arising or something that has arisen.
v
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
n
(obsolete) A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon.
n
The area within which something may be accessed without moving.
adj
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; erect.
adj
Rising, moving upward.
n
A person or thing that ascends.
n
That which rises, as from distillation.
adj
Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
n
The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
adj
Rising or tending to rise.
adj
that raises or lifts up (often of muscles)
adj
(obsolete) Lifting up; raising.
v
(intransitive) To appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
n
A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
n
Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
v
To raise or rear (children).
v
To raise (something) so that it reaches a particular standard or minimum requirement.
n
A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.
v
(transitive) To set an upper limit on something.
v
(transitive) To increase the status of something rapidly.
v
(slang, archaic) To pull upwards, e.g. to pull plants out of the ground.
v
(transitive, informal) To make more classy or sophisticated
v
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
v
(intransitive) to make a gradual ascent or increase
v
(obsolete, slang) To mount sexually; to have an erection.
v
(of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
v
(intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
v
(idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
n
Alternative spelling of crossgrade [(computing) An upgrade of a software application that enables it to run on a different platform.]
n
(computing) An upgrade of a software application that enables it to run on a different platform.
v
(transitive) To introduce; to prefigure, to set the stage for.
v
To increase the level (of something) by turning a dial, or (figuratively) as if by turning a dial.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To execute a task or performance.
n
An upward trend; an increase
n
The action of drilling down, or examining something at a higher level of detail.
v
(transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
v
(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
adv
So as to elevate or raise up.
n
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
adj
Tending to raise, or having power to elevate.
n
(Internet slang) The process of elevating a game account rating through the services of a more experienced player in order to achieve a higher Elo rating desired by the initial user.
v
(poetic, transitive) To exalt.
v
(transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
n
A person who, or a device which erects.
v
(transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
n
Anything that escalates.
v
(transitive) To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.
n
A range of values or locations.
v
(idiomatic) Of information, knowledge or practice; to move slowly up to other levels of an organisation, or population.
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To achieve enhanced performance.
n
A forward stroke or movement.
n
(rare, obsolete) A rising again; resurrection.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To prepare for an activity.
v
(literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
v
To shift from being nearly non-existent to being very obvious and plain. To increase explosively in intensity.
v
(intransitive) To be built or erected
v
To boost or increase something's power (especially an engine).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To raise, to elevate.
v
(transitive) For a person to rear (an animal), rather than have it reared naturally by its mother.
v
(transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
v
(intransitive) To increase over a period of time; to accumulate.
v
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
v
(transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
v
(transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
v
(transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
adj
Rising higher; ascending.
v
To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To raise or increase sharply; to hike.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.
v
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
n
an exercise performed by lying on the stomach, ideally inclined upwards as on a Roman chair to reach a higher range of motion, and raising and lowering the upper torso.
v
Alternative form of improve on [To fix, make better or increase the quality of (something) in comparison to previous attempts; to contribute to an ongoing effort to improve (something).]
n
The initial flow of electricity into a component when it is switched on.
v
(transitive) To raise or increase.
v
(informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
n
An increase or rise; usually said of prices, fees, or rates.
v
(figuratively) To raise the intensity, excitement, tension, etc., of.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To begin to grow or take hold.
n
(idiomatic) Dramatic improvements.
n
(figuratively) A boost, a sudden improvement; an advantage, an edge.
n
The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle
n
(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
v
To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
v
(transitive, literally and figuratively) To raise to the same level or status; to improve so as to make as good as others.
adj
having the power of causing other things to rise in the air; having the power of levitation
n
A rise; a degree of elevation.
v
(idiomatic) to cause someone to be cheerful or euphoric.
v
Synonym of raise the bar
v
(transitive) To elevate to a higher position.
adv
So as to lift or elevate.
n
(physics) The force that causes an upward flow as part of turbulence.
v
(transitive) To propel high into the air.
v
(figuratively) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
v
(rare) Alternative spelling of mike up [(transitive, informal) To fit a microphone and transmitter to (a person). Usually for television performers, or for police informers.]
adj
(computing theory, data compression) Having a zero-valued classification threshold (analogous to a riser of a stairway).
v
To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
v
(intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
v
(transitive) To raise, put onto a higher place.
v
(idiomatic) To improve one's social or financial position.
v
(programming) Synonym of new up
n
The next in line; upgrade.
v
(transitive, Now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.
adv
(Ulster) out of bed, up
adj
Alternative spelling of on the up-and-up [(informal) Legitimate; honest; upright.]
adv
Alternative form of onwards and upwards [On to greater things.]
adv
(regional) Pronunciation spelling of up. [Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.]
adv
(regional) Pronunciation spelling of up. [Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.]
v
(intransitive, poetic) To curl outward.
v
(intransitive) To flare outward.
adv
Over the page; on the next page of the document.
v
To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
adj
(kiting) with an excessively pulled rear line
v
(transitive) To swirl excessively.
v
To take part in parascending.
n
A break or paragraph in writing.
v
(intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
v
(intransitive) To become more cheerful.
n
(figuratively) Feedback which builds upon previous feedback.
v
(transitive and intransitive) To increase the price of.
v
(rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
v
(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
v
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
v
To increase a person's awareness of, and often sympathy for, an issue, cause, or condition.
v
(idiomatic) To raise standards or expectations, especially by creating something to a higher standard.
v
(transitive) To raise (put at a higher level)
v
(intransitive) To increase rapidly to a new value.
n
A sudden increase; a boost
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
n
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
v
(transitive, intransitive) to increase
v
(transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
v
To rise up, especially an animal like a horse rising up on its rear legs.
v
(literally, done to a thing) Raise or lift up.
n
(obsolete) A raising or lifting up.
v
(by extension, intransitive) To become more active.
v
(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
v
(originally military) To gradually advance in an organization to positions of more importance after having served in subordinate ones.
v
(of a horse etc) To rear.
v
Synonym of rise with the lark
n
Someone or something which rises.
v
Obsolete spelling of rise [To move upwards.]
v
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
v
Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
n
An increase in the value or amount of something.
v
(intransitive) To heave upward.
v
To define the scope of something.
n
(computing) elevation of one's own user privilege level (usually to run software that requires a higher privilege level)
n
(computing) A form of upgrade involving a switch to a different but equivalent product, e.g. another manufacturer or another operating system.
n
(engineering) an increase in the capacity, strength, or range of a signal
v
(music) to sing higher, to sing an ascending scale
adj
Suddenly and rapidly increased
v
(figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
v
(transitive, UK, informal) To improve or optimize the attributes of (something).
n
(rare) Something that boosts speed.
v
(intransitive) to increase sharply
v
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
v
(intransitive) To appear suddenly.
n
(figuratively) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
v
(US, dialect, intransitive) To draw oneself up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.
n
A sudden, discontinuous change.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.
v
(idiomatic, colloquial) To improve one's performance, or the quality of one's work.
adj
That increases in stages.
adj
That has increased; heightened
v
to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts
v
(transitive) To raise up; to elevate.
n
The act of raising on high; elevation.
v
(transitive, also mathematics) To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
v
Alternative spelling of soup up [(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.]
v
(transitive) To give a superelevation to (a railway track).
n
A person who engages in swan upping.
v
(video games) To upgrade to a higher technology level.
v
(transitive) To arrange in layers.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To change the fortunes, either positively or negatively.
v
To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.
v
to add to a number or amount, to bring something up to a certain level
n
(nonstandard) Alternative form of top-up [An addition.]
v
(transitive) to increase the power; interest; intensity; volume; level etc. of
adj
jumping across, or passing over something
v
(transitive, colloquial) To make faster or more powerful.
v
(idiomatic) To decide or determine a balanced situation.
v
(transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
adj
(Tyneside, idiomatic, figuratively) Upset, angry.
adv
(colloquial) Abruptly; unexpectedly.
adj
(idiomatic) Alternative form of up-and-coming [(idiomatic) emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim]
adj
(idiomatic) operational, in operation
n
Alternative spelling of upgaze [(medicine) The act of looking upward.]
adj
(idiomatic, colloquial) Well-informed concerning.
v
Alternative form of step up one's game [(idiomatic, colloquial) To improve one's performance, or the quality of one's work.]
v
(rare) Alternative form of up sticks. [(Britain, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.]
v
(idiomatic) To make something more desirable.
n
(idiomatic) Someone who is up-and-coming, who has begun to be successful in some field and is likely to be even more successful in the future.
n
Alternative form of upcycle (“period of a cycle where something is growing or increasing”). [A period of a cycle where something is increasing or improving.]
v
(transitive) To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.
adj
Up-beat; positive; progressive.
v
(transitive, rare) To plow up; tear up as by plowing.
n
Alternative form of uptick [A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.]
v
(geology, transitive) To cause to arch upward.
n
(uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
v
(transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
v
(transitive, intransitive) to bend upwards
v
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To boil upward.
v
(transitive, rare) to boost up
v
(geology) To bend or arc upwards.
v
(transitive, poetic) To brace up.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
n
The action of something that escapes or flies upward.
adj
(poetic) Bristling upward.
v
(intransitive) To bubble upward.
adj
(transitive, poetic) Carried upward.
n
(Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
n
A surcharge for something additional.
v
(archaic) To climb up; to ascend.
v
(transitive, computing) To increase the clock speed of.
v
To give an improved code or rating to something.
n
(rare or dialectal) An ascent, climb; a way up.
n
The activity of to upcome
v
(transitive, archaic) To conjure up.
adj
(physics) Modified using upconversion.
v
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
n
A gradual movement upwards.
v
(transitive, rare) To curl up.
n
A period of a cycle where something is increasing or improving.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To dart upward.
n
A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
n
(chiefly India, countable) An instance of that process: an update.
v
(archaic, intransitive, rare) To spring upward; to rise
n
(Internet slang, humorous) An upvote.
n
An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction
n
(phonetics) A rising (over time) of the pitch of the tones of a tonal language.
v
(transitive) To end up; to set on end.
v
(transitive, now chiefly poetic) To fill up.
v
(transitive) To customize (a product, especially a vehicle) by adding extra features.
n
(poetic) A flaring upward.
v
(intransitive) To flash upward; to rise or surface very rapidly.
v
(poetic) To flicker upward.
v
(transitive) To fling upward.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To float upward.
v
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To flower; to reach a state of full development or achievement.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To fly upward.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To furl upward.
n
(UK dialectal) The act of ascending a slope; ascent.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To gaze upward.
v
(figuratively) To move to an elevated level of activity, performance, or intensity
v
(archaic, poetic) To support or hold up.
n
(phonology) An upward glide.
n
Upward movement; ascension.
n
(computing, nonstandard, proscribed, chiefly India) Upgrade; upgrading.
n
An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology
n
One who, or that which, upgrades.
v
Alternative form of up-gun [(transitive) To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.]
n
(archaic) A gushing upward.
v
To lift with an upward movement of the hands.
v
(rare) To suspend or fix aloft.
v
(transitive, poetic, archaic) To tear up.
v
(transitive) To pile or heap up; accumulate.
n
(obsolete) a wooden pole used as scaffolding
v
(archaic) To thrust in up to the hilt
v
(transitive) To hurl or cast up.
v
(intransitive) To jet upward.
v
(poetic) To kindle upward.
v
(transitive, rare) To lay up; hoard.
v
(transitive, rare) To lead upward.
v
(transitive, intransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
v
(intransitive) To leap up; spring up.
adj
(marketing) Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
n
(law) An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances.
n
The quality of being uplifted.
n
Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
v
(transitive) To move further up a list (especially in terms of less endangered animals that become more endangered).
v
(obsolete) To look upward.
v
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To loom upward.
v
(transitive, rare or archaic) To make up.
v
To make or become upmarket.
v
(transitive) To modulate to a higher level.
n
modulation to a higher level
n
(literally and figuratively) The state, quality, or condition of being up
v
(poetic) To quiver upward.
n
The act of something being upraised.
n
One who upraises something.
v
(transitive) To raise or promote in rank.
v
(intransitive) To reach upward.
v
To raise something up; to rise up; to erect
n
A yielding or rendering up.
v
(transitive) To raise up in ridges.
adj
(obsolete) raised up in ridges
v
(transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
v
(archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
v
(transitive) To roll up.
v
(transitive) To run up; ascend.
v
(intransitive) To rush upward.
n
(idiomatic) Periods of positive and negative events, moods, or interactions; highs and lows.
n
Someone or something which upscales.
n
An improved or higher score.
v
(intransitive) To seek or strain upward.
v
(intransitive, US, Scotland) To ascend; climb up.
n
A shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth, economic level, etc.
n
(finance) An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
n
(obsolete) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
n
(music) A slur in which the pitch of the note rises.
n
(linguistics) A manner of speaking in which the intonation of one's voice rises at the end of a statement, as if expressing uncertainty or asking a question; uptalk.
n
One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.
adj
(archaic) Growing or shooting up like a spear.
v
(poetic) To spout upward.
v
(poetic) To spread upward.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To sprout up.
v
(intransitive) To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
v
to rise suddenly, to spring
n
(Scientology) A successful person who is making progress.
n
An upward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
v
(poetic) To strain upward.
v
(archaic, poetic) To strive upward.
n
(uncountable, typography) Upstyle capitalization.
v
(poetic) To suck upward.
v
(intransitive) to surge up, or to become stronger or greater
v
(intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
v
(transitive) To sway or swing up; brandish.
v
(intransitive) To swell upward.
v
(poetic, transitive, intransitive) To swim up or upward.
n
The act of lifting or taking up.
v
(linguistics, intransitive) To speak with a rising intonation at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question; to upspeak.
v
(archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.
v
(intransitive) To be thrust upwards.
n
A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.
v
(intransitive) To tilt upward.
v
(transitive, poetic) To tower above; to loom.
v
(transitive) To train up; educate.
n
An upward trend, or an upturn.
n
an upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit
v
(transitive, intransitive, poetic) To twist upward.
v
(transitive, intransitive, poetic) To twist upward.
v
(transitive) To assign a higher value to.
v
(transitive, Internet) To vote for, increasing a cumulative tally of popularity.
n
(Internet) One who upvotes.
v
(archaic, poetic, intransitive) To waft upward.
n
(sociology) Ability to advance to better-paid or better-regarded social strata.
adj
Likely to advance in economic or social standing.
adv
To a higher figure or amount.
v
To give a greater weight (or importance) to
v
(intransitive, of a fluid) To rise from a lower source; to well up.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To wheel upward.
v
(intransitive) To rise upward in a whirl.
v
(transitive) To send (something) upward in curls.
v
Alternative form of upwreath [(intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.]
v
(transitive, poetic) To wrench upward; to tear up or uproot.
adv
So as to vault or leap.
v
(figuratively, by extension, chiefly of an emotion) To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one.
n
to rise within a hierarchical order
v
(intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
v
To raise; to excite; to stir up.
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