Difference between Raise and Upraise

What is the difference between Raise and Upraise?

Raise as a verb is to cause to rise. while Upraise as a verb is to raise something up; to elevate.

Raise

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An increase in wages or salary; a rise . A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. A bet which increased the previous bet.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to rise. To collect. To bring up; to grow. To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand. To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property). To exponentiate, to involute. To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

Example sentence: To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Upraise

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise something up; to elevate.To move something upright; to erect.

We hope you now know whether to use Raise or Upraise in your sentence.

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