rijzen — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
rijzen is used for these senses in English:
- dawn (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
- lift To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- rise The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- rise (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- rise (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
- rise To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
dawn — full definition
- noun The time of day when light first appears in the sky before the sun rises.
- verb To begin to become clear or obvious to someone, often suddenly.
lift — full definition
- verb To raise something to a higher position.
- verb To remove or cancel a restriction, ban, or rule.
- verb To steal something, especially casually or without much effort.
- noun British English word for an elevator: a device for carrying people or goods between floors.
- noun A free ride in someone else's vehicle.