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rising

16 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) rising (noun)
  2. 2) rising (adverb)
  3. rise (verb)
  4. rising diphthong (noun)
  5. rising hinge (noun)
  6. rising line (noun)
  7. rising rhythm (noun)
  8. rising seat (noun)
  9. rising star (noun)
  10. rising timbers (noun plural)
  11. rising vote (noun)
  12. rising wood (noun)
  13. dead rising (noun)
  14. salt-rising bread (noun)
  15. self-rising (adjective)
  16. self-rising flour (noun)

1rising

noun

Definition of RISING

: insurrection, uprising
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Examples of RISING

  1. He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government.
  2. <a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years>

First Known Use of RISING

14th century

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Rhymes with RISING

sizing

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