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"Climb upward"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɹaɪz/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eirsStarts with REnds with E3 cluesVery common crossword word
1R2I3S4E

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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