Synonyms and Antonyms of raising
1
to move from a lower to a higher place or position
- he asked members of the audience to raise their hands if they had been to his show before
boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, taking up, upholding, uplifting, upping, upraising
2
to bring to maturity through care and education
- since she was only two when her mother died, the girl was raised mainly by her aunt
fathering, mothering
attending, caring (for), cradling, cultivating, minding, ministering (to), nurturing, watching
disciplining, educating, instructing, mentoring, schooling, teaching, training, tutoring
edifying, enlightening, indoctrinating
feeding, providing (for), supplying
advancing, forwarding, furthering, promoting
preparing
directing, guiding, leading, shepherding, showing
3
to bring (something volatile or intense) into being
- a proposal to cover the library's red brick with vinyl siding raised a mighty ruckus with those favoring historical preservation
advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulating
detonating, setting, setting off, triggering
exciting, galvanizing, inflaming (also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousing
activating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing
bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, taming
allaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
4
to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved)
- the lawsuit raised old resentments that had never been completely extinguished
dragging, dredging (up), extorting, extracting, pulling, wangling, wresting, wringing
coaxing (out), gaining, getting, obtaining, procuring, securing
baring, disclosing, discovering, divulging, evincing, exposing, revealing, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking, unveiling
5
to fix in an upright position
- the mattress will fit into the moving truck only if we raise it on its side
bracing, buttressing, propping (up), shoring (up), supporting
boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, upholding, uplifting, upping
6
to form by putting together parts or materials
- raised a memorial on the site of the historic event
assembling, building, confecting, constructing, erecting, fabricating, making, making up, piecing, putting up, rearing, setting up
carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
prefabricating
beginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originating
constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)
reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying [British], retrofitting
jerry-building, rigging (up), throwing up
combining, uniting
demolishing, destroying, devastating, flattening, leveling (or levelling), pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruinating, ruining, shattering, smashing, wrecking
blowing up, exploding
detaching, disengaging
disconnecting, disjoining, disuniting, dividing, separating
7
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care
- raises ducks, geese, and other exotic fowl ultimately destined for the dinner table
breeding, producing, propagating
planting, sowing
gathering, gleaning, harvesting, reaping
germinating, quickening, ripening, rooting, sprouting
8
to make greater in size, amount, or number
- the multiplex raised the ticket price
accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping
booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spiking
bumping (up), ratcheting (up) also
racheting (up)
blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating
drawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching
developing, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying
complementing, supplementing
beefing (up), reinforcing (also reenforcing), strengthening
maximizing
accumulating, amassing, collecting
following up, parlaying
abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from)
9
to move higher in rank or position
- he was recently raised to lieutenant in the fire department
forwarding, furthering
aggrandizing, boosting, heightening, improving, lifting, uplifting
commissioning, ennobling, knighting
acclaiming, applauding, celebrating, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating
eulogizing, exalting, extolling, glorifying, hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting
deposing, dethroning, dismissing, expelling, impeaching, ousting, overthrowing, removing, unmaking, unseating
demeaning, disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, mortifying, shaming, taking down
censuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, reprobating
10
to present or bring forward for discussion
- one member of the tour raised the subject of appropriate attire for visits to sacred sites in the Holy Land
alluding (to), citing, mentioning, naming, referring (to)
offering, proposing, suggesting
airing, expressing, speaking (of), talking (about), ventilating, venting
interjecting, interrupting
debating, discussing, thrashing (out or over)
11
to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)
- too afraid to raise an objection
advertising, announcing, declaring, enouncing, enunciating, proclaiming, saying
broadcasting, circulating, disseminating, publishing
describing, writing, writing up
sounding off, speaking out, speaking up
chiming in
communicating, conveying, putting across, putting over
offering, submitting
