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risen 1 of 2

adjective

as in inflated

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2 of 2

verb

past participle of rise
1
as in increased
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number the snow accumulation is rising at an alarming rate

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2
as in arisen
to leave one's bed I generally rise around six and leave for work by seven

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3
as in ascended
to move or extend upward mountains majestically rising towards the sky

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Recent Examples of risen
Adjective
The longest ending includes the risen Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene, whose testimony is initially rebuffed, and then to others. — Mary Foskett, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026 This wretched regime is doomed to be overthrown by the risen populace and rebellious youth. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
Verb
Search and rescue missions are still underway across the Nepal-China border, where authorities in both countries confirm the death toll to have risen to 1,375. — Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026 Over the past decade or so, however, as his profile has risen, Greene’s ambition has expanded, too. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026 Separate Gallup polling conducted in 2025 found that skepticism about the safety of driverless cars had risen over the previous several years. — Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026 Poverty has risen in Nigeria since 2023 following the five-fold increase in fuel prices that Tinubu’s termination of a fuel subsidy scheme triggered. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Another factor is the price of jet fuel, which has also risen since the war began. — Willa Rubin, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026 The premise of Zero Trust was always sound, but the cost of not using it has risen dramatically. — Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The Anti-Defamation League recorded 2,024 antisemitic incidents in 2020, but by 2024 that number had risen to 9,354 — a more than fourfold increase. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Over the past decade, breast cancer rates have risen by 1% per year, with the steepest increase occurring in women younger than 50. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for risen
  1. inflated
  2. increased
  3. arisen
  4. ascended
  5. swollen
  6. accelerated
  7. woken
  8. soared
Adjective
  • The visually inflated size of certain landmasses such as Greenland on the Mercator map may even have geopolitical implications.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Mundubile has alleged irregularities and election observers have also reported inflated vote tallies and improper administration.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of inflated
Verb
  • The eastward shift increased the chances of hurricane-force wind gusts on Niihau and possibly Kauai, especially at higher elevations, the hurricane center warned.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The restrictions have increased pressure on Chinese companies to develop domestic alternatives across the semiconductor supply chain.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of increased
Verb
  • The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake.
    — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And the human element isn’t the only complication — there are legal questions that haven’t arisen before to consider, too.
    — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of arisen
Verb
  • The local football teams never ascended to such emotional heights, but did their best.
    — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Suddenly, the aircraft ascended and started rolling to the right as the pilots desperately worked to realign the aircraft.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of ascended
Adjective
  • Historical records indicate that dikes were deliberately breached during a military conflict, allowing the swollen Yellow River to inundate the city.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The trouble was a bacterial abscess on the child’s neck, swollen, red, warm to the touch, about the size of a ping-pong ball, large enough to force the head into a tilt.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of swollen
Verb
  • The rocket’s second stage ignited a single Aquila engine and accelerated to orbital velocity—some 5 miles per second—about seven minutes into the flight.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The July hack by rogue OpenAI autonomous agents on open-source developer platform Hugging Face accelerated the shift and proved that the era of advanced AI hacks had arrived.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of accelerated
Verb
  • The best music; Cars still had a little style and nothing woke about sports.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • When the show ended, the audience burst into rattled applause, as if we’d been woken from our own dream, still unable to tell the reverie from the real thing.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of woken
Verb
  • Since the war with Iran began in late February, the nationwide average diesel price has soared by 60%.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But since then, wages have fallen, home prices have soared and fewer than half of people working manual labor jobs own a home.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of soared

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“Risen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/risen. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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