RAISE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raise up mean? 

• RAISE UP (verb)
  The verb RAISE UP has 1 sense:

1. change the arrangement or position of

  Familiarity information: RAISE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAISE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the arrangement or position of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

agitate; commove; disturb; raise up; shake up; stir up; vex

Hypernyms (to "raise up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "raise up"):

beat; scramble (stir vigorously)

toss (agitate)

rile; roil (make turbid by stirring up the sediments of)

poke (stir by poking)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Readily, answered the little man; take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I did not feel dizzy—I suppose I was too excited—and the time seemed ridiculously short till I found myself standing on the window-sill and trying to raise up the sash.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Why should you raise up hopes which you are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I call it cruel.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That we shall prove,” said Goodwin Hawtayne; “but it would be well, ere they close with us, to raise up the mantlets and pavises as a screen against their bolts.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At least it would be a face worth seeing: the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy: a face which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When it was there, he gave directions to fasten another cable to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raise up my chest with pulleys, which all the sailors were not able to do above two or three feet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his hand as if to strike his father.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)