Clues for the word "RISE"
We've had 317 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1029 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on January 13, 2026.
Definition of rise
- v. - To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
- v. - To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
- v. - To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
- v. - To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
- v. - To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
- v. - To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
- v. - To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
- v. - To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
- v. - To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
- v. - To retire; to give up a siege.
- v. - To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
- v. - To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
- v. - To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
- v. - To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
- v. - To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
- v. - To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
- v. - To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
- v. - To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
- v. - To become of higher value; to increase in price.
- v. - To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
- v. - To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
- v. - To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
- v. - To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
- v. - In various figurative senses.
- v. - To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- v. - To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
- v. - To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
- v. - To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- v. - To come; to offer itself.
- v. - To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
- v. - To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
- v. - To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
- v. - To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
- n. - The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
- n. - The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
- n. - Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
- n. - Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
- n. - Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
- n. - Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
- n. - Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
- n. - Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
- n. - The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
Referring Clues
- Levitate
- Upswing
- Acclivity
- Provoked response
- Near the surface
- Greet with old-fashioned etiquette
- Skyrocket
- React to yeast
- Irate reaction
- Obey a court order
- "All ___"
- Slope
- Get up
- Yeast's effect on cake
- Angry reaction
- Climb
- Hillock
- Court order?
- "The ___ and Fall of the Third Reich"
- Swell
- Get out of bed
- Faith healer's directive
- Show respect to a judge
- Be upwardly mobile?
- Good news on Wall Street
- "All ___!" (cry in court)
- Irked reaction
- Stand
- Piece of high ground
- Greet the judge
- Greet the day
- ___ and shine
- Stairstep measure
- Get promoted
- Ascent
- Show respect, in a way
- Soufflés do it
- Shine's partner
- Fall's opposite
- Lift off
- Appear on the scene
- Effect of yeast on dough
- Progress
- Sprout
- Spring (from)
- Opposite of fall
- Move skyward
- Small hill
- Early career trajectory
- Surge
- Get higher
- Originate
- Emulate the cream, perhaps
- Get ready to shine?
- Show respect for the national anthem
- Increase
- Go up
- Do stand-up?
- Prepare for "The Star Spangled Banner"
- Lose one's lap
- Upward slope
- Low hill
- Ascension
- Part of a courtroom shout
- Shine partner
- Come out of a crouch
- Come to the surface
- Command in a levitation act
- Bailiff's request
- Ascend
- Bring up the rear?
- Increase in salary, to a Brit
- Acknowledge the judge's arrival
- Originate (hint #3)
- Dentist's request
- "All ___!" (bailiff's command)
- React to a judge's entrance
- 1979 #1 hit for Herb Alpert
- Mount
- Little hill
- High ground
- Originate, as a river
- Prepare for the National Anthem
- Wake up
- Advance
- Respond to reveille
- Gain altitude
- Stand up
- Price increase
- Bailiff's order
- Gradient
- Leave the ground
- Leave one's seat
- Heed the alarm
- Court order
- Bailiff's command
- Waist-to-crotch measure
- "All ___!" (courtroom phrase)
- Acknowledge the judge
- Gently sloped hill
- Become prominent
- Revolt
- Come up, as the moon
- What dough does when baked
- Courtroom directive
- You may do it with the sun
- Prepare to hear "The Star Spangled Banner"
- Be revolting?
- Word from a faith healer, perhaps
- Swell, as a river
- What temperatures may do
- Bailiff's word
- Move up
- Upward sweep
- Come up in the world
- Rebel
- Climb the corporate ladder
- Upsurge
- React to a crowing rooster, say
- Get to one's feet
- Gain importance
- Get ready for a pledge
- It may be meteoric
- Puff up
- Beginning
- Attain success
- Pants measure
- Work, as yeast
- Shine's companion
- Respond to an alarm
- Upturn
- Prepare to sing an anthem
- Gentle hill
- Move upward
- Extend upward
- Elevation
- Hop out of bed
- Obey reveille
- "All ___!" (court phrase)
- Do standup?
- See 57-Across
- Escalation
- Intentionally provoked reaction
- Escalate
- Gentle slope
- diva Stevens
- Obey a bailiff's order
- Indignant reaction
- Revolt, with "up"
- Knoll
- Hill
- React to reveille
- Respond to yeast
- Go skyward
- Go upward
- Elevation of influence
- Burgeon
- Honor His Honor, say
- Bailiff's instruction
- ___ to the occasion
- "All ___" (bailiff's directive)
- Greet the dawn
- Courtroom command
- "All ___!" (court cry)
- Command to Lazarus
- Lose a lap
- The tide may do it
- What yeast makes bread do
- Float up
- Show some respect to a judge
- Shaving cream name
- Increase in altitude
- ___ and shine!
- Bread can do it
- Incline
- Opposite of sink
- Levitator's command
- Quit lying
- Greet the judge nonverbally
- Exhibit upward mobility?
- Opposite of set
- Jack up
- Provoked reaction
- Pre-anthem instruction
- Projected vertically
- Project vertically
- Get a promotion
- Upward movement
- Court order to all
- What souffles do
- Word from the bailiff
- May the road ___ up to meet you
- Go higher
- Face the day
- Emulate yeast-bread
- Order in the court
- "All ___!" (court exclamation)
- Elevate
- "All ___!" (bailiff's order)
- Expand, as bread dough
- Word in a bailiff's order
- Move higher
- Become more successful
- Become famous
- Climb up
- Climb up to
- Be on the up and up?
- Mezzo-Soprano Stevens
- Word in a bailiff's command
- Mezzo Stevens
- Tailor's concern
- Volume enhancement
- Float upward
- Come about
- Move upwardly
- Opposite of lie down
- "All ___!" (court command)
- Pay increase: some offer is expected
- We hear whisky's to go up
- Rebel is held by soldiers
- Get up (get on up!)
- What a cake will do in the oven
- Awaken
- Kiss: "___ To It"
- Eddie Vedder song about liftoff?
- "Give It All" ___ Against
- Climb the ranks
- Pantera song about an ascent?
- Decemberists "As I ___"
- Soundgarden "Live to ___"
- Ray LaMontagne "God Willin' & the Creek Don't ___"
- ___ Against
- "Savior" ___ Against
- Cult song that gets you up?
- "Swing Life Away" ___ Against
- Citizen Cope "Son's Gonna ___"
- Again accepts an island as high ground
- Hike in spring
- Stand up for better pay
- Uptick
- Leave one's seat, maybe
- React to yeast, say
- Acknowledge the judge's entrance
- Acknowledge the bride
- Hilltop
- React to a provocation
- Court order?
- Head upward
- Begin the day
- Show deference to an entering judge, say
- Get up for the day
- Cost increase
- Increase in value
- Do the reverse of sink
- Head skyward
- 2016 Katy Perry hit prominently featured at the Rio Olympics
- Greet the queen, say
- End of a court phrase
- Greet Judge Judy, e.g.
- Get to your feet
- Appear above the horizon
- Don't take a knee
- U-turn from sink
- Part of a slope ratio
- Certain baking success
- Quit lying, say
- Prove equal (to)
- Gain in status
- Respond to an anthem
- See 14
- Strong reaction
- Ascendancy
- Respond to the alarm
- Stop lying
- What kneaded dough should do
- Get out of the sack
- Start the day
- Await an anthem
- Could you take one out of Griselda?
- Achieve higher ground?
- Increase in wages
- Come into one's own
- What 12-, 26- and 44-Down do from their crossing resting places? (Read the starred answers' indicated letters for a bonus!)
- What bread dough and the morning sun do
- "Star Wars: Episode IX" title word
- Prepare for the judge’s entrance
- What unleavened dough doesn't do
- End a 73 Across
- Become visible on the horizon
- What yeast makes dough do
- "All ___" (legal drama)
- Path toward fame
- Word ladder, part 1
- Bread-related verb that sounds like 28-Down's plural
- What matzo doesn't do
- "Still I ___" (Maya Angelou poem)
- Heed a bailiff's order
- Grow
- Maya Angelou's "And Still I ___"
- What prices do during inflation
- What good soufflés do
- Get up off an ottoman
- Puff up, as bread
- Hike
- Counterpart of run in calculating the slope of a line
- For the underpaid, is it a bit of a surprise?
- Lose a lap?
- Current blockbuster "Transformers: - of the Beasts"
- Make it up?
- "All ___" (court order)
- Set's opposite
- Come up
- High-___ apartment
- "___ and grind!"
- See 68-Across
- What a baking cake will do
- Build up
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - January 13, 2026
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- Daily American - November 19, 2025
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- Mirror Daily - October 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 26, 2025
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- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
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- Mirror Daily - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 30, 2025
- Daily American - August 26, 2025
- New York Times - August 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 09, 2025
- Daily American - August 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 07, 2025
- New York Times - August 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 01, 2025
- New York Times - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2025
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