ARISE (arisen, arose)

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Irregular inflected forms: arisen    , arose   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does arise mean? 

• ARISE (verb)
  The verb ARISE has 7 senses:

1. come into existence; take on form or shape

2. originate or come into being

3. rise to one's feet

4. result or issue

5. move upward

6. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

7. get up and out of bed

  Familiarity information: ARISE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they arise    ... he / she / it arises   
Past simple: arose   
Past participle: arisen   
-ing form: arising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into existence; take on form or shape

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise

Context example:

An interesting phenomenon uprose

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Verb group:

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

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

resurge (rise again)

come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)

come; follow (to be the product or result)

swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))

head (take its rise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Originate or come into being

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arise; bob up; come up

Context example:

a question arose

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise

Context example:

The audience got up and applauded

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

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

take the floor (stand up to dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue arise

Antonym:

lie down (assume a reclining position)

sit down (take a seat)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Result or issue

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

arise; come up

Context example:

A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

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

open; open up (become available)

come up (be mentioned)

condense (develop due to condensation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Move upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise

Context example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

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

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)

steam (rise as vapor)

uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)

bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)

rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)

go up (be erected, built, or constructed)

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

arise; rebel; rise; rise up

Hypernyms (to "arise" is one way to...):

dissent; protest; resist (express opposition through action or words)

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

revolt (make revolution)

mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They arise

Sense 7

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Context example:

He uprose at night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue arise

 Context examples 

Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.

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

He arose and thrust his head out the port-hole, looking down into the milky wash.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Watch if a financial matter arises over the November 23-24 weekend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Next morning when the princess arose she went to her father, and told him that she had had a very strange dream.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This allowed them to estimate that the cancer first arose between 4,000 and 8,500 years ago, most likely in Asia or Europe.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)

Despite their tight orbits — closer than Mercury's orbit around our sun — the possibility that life could arise on a planet around such a star cannot be ruled out.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

These new states, known as the fractional quantum Hall effect, arise from the complex interactions of electrons both within and across graphene layers.

(Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene, National Science Foundation)

In this new effort, the researchers wondered how the honeybees knew what to do when adverse conditions arose.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Although plastic waste per person is highest in high-income countries, most mismanaged waste tends to arise from low-to-middle-income countries, where waste management systems have not kept pace with growing populations and industrialisation.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

Those acoustic cues arise from many sources, not least the animals living on reefs.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)