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"Climb upward"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɹaɪz/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eirsStarts with REnds with E3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. get up and out of bed

Word origin

From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, rise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, spring”). See also raise.

Used in a sentence

  • We watched the balloon rise.
  • Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops.
  • This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Climb upward4 letters
02Get higher4 letters
03Increase or get up4 letters

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