Raising is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAISING in dictionary:

VERB:
• lift or move to a higher position or level
• lift or move to a vertical position; set upright
• construct or build (a structure)
• cause to rise or form
• bring to the surface (a ship that has sunk)
• cause (bread) to rise, especially by the action of yeast
• make (a nap) on cloth
• increase the amount, level, or strength of
• promote (someone) to a higher rank
• (in transformational grammar) move (a noun phrase) out of a subordinate clause and into a main clause under certain conditions.
• multiply a quantity to (a specified power)
• (in poker or brag) bet (a specified amount) more than (another player)
• cause to occur or to be considered
• generate (an invoice or other document)
• collect, levy, or bring together (money or resources)
• bring up (a child)
• breed or grow (animals or plants)
• bring (someone) back from death
• cause (a ghost or spirit) to appear
• abandon or force an enemy to abandon (a siege, blockade, or embargo)
• drive (an animal) from its lair
• (of someone at sea) come in sight of (land or another ship)
• establish contact with (someone) by telephone or radio
• stimulate production of (an antiserum, antibody, or other biologically active substance) against the appropriate target cell or substance
• make a higher bid in the same suit as that bid by (one's partner)
NOUN:
• an elevation
• an increase in salary
• (in poker or brag) an increase in a stake.
• an act of lifting or raising a part of the body while holding a weight
• rule that moves a constituent from an embedded clause into the main clause
• The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
• Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
• The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
• the event of something being raised upward
• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
• a higher bid in the suit that one's partner has bid.
ADJECTIVE:
• increasing in quantity or value
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move to a higher position

Words related to RAISING

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Words that contain RAISING

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How to use RAISING in a sentence

• And, although you must use some strength in raising your hands, you must not raise them too high, and you must not lean your head forward or draw your elbows back.
• The Count sprang forward, and seized the fellow from behind, and thus afforded me an opportunity of raising myself from the ground.
• The people are mostly engaged in raising cattle, sheep and goats and growing wheat, barley and other grains in the valleys.
• Those who enjoy the privilege of raising it consider the money very hardly earned.
• In the meantime, Waller, raising the siege of Oxford, had gone in pursuit of the king.
• Fortunately, four more joined before the battle, raising the numbers actually engaged to twenty-seven.
• They succeeded in raising the prow upon the ice, but they were too late.
• When all have passed by, Elizabeth, realising that she will see her beloved no more, sinks slowly down on her knees, and, raising her despairing eyes to the image of the Virgin.
• You will add a valuable possession to a country now beginning to pay great attention to the raising sheep.
• That is true of raising cities, as well as raising crops.
• The price had risen, as it is natural, by raising the denomination of money.
• On hearing of the raising of the siege of Herat, the intentions of the Indian government were in some degree modified.
• Abandoning the house of commons, he gave himself wholly up to the task of raising the banner of national independence in Ireland.
• I assert the fact, without raising the question whether or not these are the necessary consequences of war.
• Various schemes were proposed for raising the money.
• On its becoming known that the first movement directed by Napoleon was the raising of the blockade of Ferrol, Rear-Admiral Stirling was ordered to join Sir R.
• He saluted me in a haughty manner as he advanced to the table, raising his cap for an instant and then replacing it.
• In the legends of all countries, sorcerers or fugitives are represented as raising magic floods, either to sweep away their enemies or to baffle pursuit.
• The weapon turned upon the strong armour that he wore, and, unhurt, he caught her by the wrist, raising his sword.
• Coxey was raising a great army of idle men to march on Washington and demand that the government should feed and clothe the people.
• I invite your attention to the views of the Secretary as to the propriety of raising by appropriate legislation a revenue from the mineral lands of the United States.
• They were, in short, the persons, who had been the means of raising the public spirit, which I had observed first at Manchester, and afterwards as I journeyed on.
• It has never been extensively cultivated in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, probably from the greater facility of raising the sweet potato, its more tropical rival.
• Raising his head a little he saw the ruined buildings of Chastel melting away entirely under the tremendous fire of the great French field guns.
• The other Indians, raising the war-whoop, seized their arms, and rushing upon Kenton and his party, compelled them, after a severe contest of a few minutes, to retreat.

Similar words containing RAIS without suffix ing

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