0 present participle of raise --
2 to cause something to increase or become bigger, better, higher, etc.: --
formal The chapel was raised (= built) as a memorial to her son.
I want to start my own business if I can raise (= obtain) the money/cash/capital/funds.
I want to raise (= talk about) two problems/questions with you.
The announcement raised a cheer/laugh.
This discussion has raised many important issues/problems.
Her answers raised doubts/fears/suspicions in my mind.
4 to take care of a person, or an animal or plant, until they are completely grown: --
5 If you raise another player in a game of cards, you risk more money than that player has risked: --
[ + two objects ] I'll raise you $50.
I'll raise you.
Never-married women were particularly vulnerable to social exclusion and destitution, because they had not complied with the cultural norms (adat) of marriage and raising children.
Expressed in terms of elements, the raising and centralisation that produce reduction converge on a single result : they banish complex melodic expressions from atonic nuclei.
Raising an awareness of the richness in linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual contexts should present an important part of new programmes.
This means that it is not unthinkable that the wife's help was sometimes necessary, either in raising the stock or in the meat hall.
They reiterated the 1958 demand that the federal government split revenues equally with them by raising the provincial share to 50 per cent.
However, it is important to note that fronting and raising are straightforward categorical phonetic adjustments.
One of the advantages of raising troops through the companies was that their corporate resources might ensure that the poorer inhabitants were less burdened.
Yet there is an important sense in which the verb raising operations in the two languages are at polar extremes.
