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RISE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
Example:
The horse reared in terror
Synonyms:
rear; rise up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "rise up" is one way to...):
straighten (get up from a sitting or slouching position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rise up"):
rear back (rear backwards on its hind legs)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Come to the surface
Synonyms:
come up; rise; rise up; surface
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "rise up" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rise up"):
emerge (come up to the surface of or rise)
resurface (reappear on the surface)
bubble up; intumesce (move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically)
swell; well (come up, as of a liquid)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "rise up" is one way to...):
dissent; protest; resist (express opposition through action or words)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rise up"):
revolt (make revolution)
mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
They rise up
Context examples:
And he shouted harsh words after the bear, and waved his arms about, and made much noise. Then did the bear grow angry, and rise up on his hind legs, and growl. But Keesh walked right up to the bear.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Those who were looking on heard what was neither bark nor yelp, but a something which is best described as a roar, and they saw Buck’s body rise up in the air as he left the floor for Burton’s throat.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Well, said she, I am not in voice, and it is ill to play in a little room with but two to listen, but you must conceive me to be the Queen of the Peruvians, who is exhorting her countrymen to rise up against the Spaniards, who are oppressing them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh! long, long afterwards, I saw that face rise up before me, with its momentary look, not wondering, not accusing, not regretting.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Here, as we are rushing along through the darkness, with the cold from the river seeming to rise up and strike us; with all the mysterious voices of the night around us, it all comes home.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
