RISE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rise up mean? 

• RISE UP (verb)
  The verb RISE UP has 3 senses:

1. come to the surface

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

3. stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds

  Familiarity information: RISE UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to the surface

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come up; rise; rise up; surface

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

ascend; go up (travel up)

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 2

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 "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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

rear; rise up

Context example:

The horse reared in terror

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

 Context examples 

The sun rise up, and up, and up; and then sleep come to her too late, but so heavy that she will not wake.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A corner of it, catching her eye as she lay, seemed to rise up in judgment against her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Whence come they, these peoples, these lordly nations, these mighty countries which rise up before me?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That dead men rise up never!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pluto also rules secrets, and in this testing aspect, if anything untoward has been going on below the surface, the news will rise up to be revealed and judged.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Tell all the first form to rise up and direct their faces to the wall.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then she could gradually rise up to the genuine satisfaction of having a partner, a voluntary partner, secured against the dancing began.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Someone of a nobler character, and more worthy altogether than anyone I have ever seen here, must rise up, before I give my consent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He could feel the pricking and stinging of the old anger as it strove to rise up in him, but it strove against love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The demonstration unit is capable of producing 4 thousand cubic meters of biomethane per month and currently fuels 70 vehicles—a number that can rise up to a monthly 300.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)