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ARISE

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Irregular inflected forms: arisen    , arose   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Example:

He uprose at night

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue arise

Sense 2

Meaning:

Result or issue

Example:

A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion

Synonyms:

arise; come up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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"):

condense (develop due to condensation)

open; open up (become available)

come up (be mentioned)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move upward

Example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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"):

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

steam (rise as vapor)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

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 4

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Example:

The audience got up and applauded

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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 5

Meaning:

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

Synonyms:

arise; rebel; rise; rise up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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 6

Meaning:

Come into existence; take on form or shape

Example:

An interesting phenomenon uprose

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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 7

Meaning:

Originate or come into being

Example:

a question arose

Synonyms:

arise; bob up; come up

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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

become (come into existence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

The team also found more than 50 mutations that arose as the outbreak spread.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

New stars and planetary systems arise in cloud-like regions of gas and dust in between stars, making these interstellar clouds the ideal places to start the search for life’s building blocks.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

DLBCL is the most common type of lymphoma—cancer that arises in the lymphatic system, where infection-fighting cells are made.

(Tumor DNA in Blood Reveals Lymphoma Progression, NIH)

Scientists think this emission arises when accelerated electrons and positrons collide with nearby starlight.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

These waves arise from the differences between organs as cells begin to communicate.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

Meanwhile, JPL scientist Kevin Hand had used sample ocean salts, bombarded by radiation in a laboratory under Europa-like conditions, and found that several new and distinct features arose in sodium chloride after irradiation.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

The man addressed as Yonson, a man of the heavy Scandinavian type, ceased chafing me, and arose awkwardly to his feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The load quivered, and from under the runners arose a crisp crackling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mr. Micawber withdrew, and was absent some little time; in the course of which Mrs. Micawber was not wholly free from an apprehension that words might have arisen between him and the Member.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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