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

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

Related to RISING

Synonyms
insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt, revolution, rebellion, uprising
Antonyms
descent, dip, dive, drop, fall, nosedive, plunge

Rhymes with RISING

sizing

2rising

adverb

Definition of RISING

: approaching a stated age : nearly <a red cow rising four years old — Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Journal>

First Known Use of RISING

circa 1772

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