raising

The word “raising” has 2 syllables: rais-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪzɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for raising?

In the thesaurus, “raising” has 453 synonyms and 178 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for raising along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for raising

abetting
accelerating
accession
acclaiming
accretion
accumulating
activating
addition
adopting
adorning
advance
advancing
advertising
aggrandizing
agriculture
agrology
agronomics
agronomy
airing
amassing
amplifying
ancestry
announcing
applauding
architecture
arrangement
artistic
ascending
ascension
ascent
assembling
assembly
attending
augmentation
augmenting
baring
beautifying
beginning
beneficial
blastoff
blowing up
booming
boost
boosting
bracing
breeding
brewing
bringing up
broaching
broadcasting
broadening
build
building
building up
buildup
bump
buttressing
calling forth
caregiving
caretaking
carpentering
cast
celebrating
chiming in
circulating
citing
civility
civilizing
climb
coining
collecting
combining
commending
commissioning
communicating
complementing
complimenting
composition
compounding
conceiving
conception
concocting
conduct
confecting
congratulating
constituting
constitution
constructing
constructive
contour
contriving
conveying
corrective
courtesy
cradling
craning
creating
cropping
cultivating
cultivation
culture
culturing
cut
debating
declaring
decorating
deepening
describing
designing
detonating
developing
development
developmental
devising
dignifying
dilating
directing
disciplining
disclosing
discovering
discussing
disposition
disseminating
distending
divulging
dragging
drawing out
dressing
edifice
edifying
educating
educative
educing
elaboration
elevating
elevation
eliciting
elongating
encouraging
energizing
enflaming
enhancing
enlargement
enlarging
enlightening
enlivening
ennobling
enouncing
enriching
enunciating
erecting
erection
escalating
establishing
eulogizing
evincing
evoking
exaggeration
exalting
exciting
expanding
expansion
expatiation
exposing
expounding
expressing
extending
extension
extolling
extorting
extracting
fabric
fabricating
fabrication
farming
fashioning
fatherhood
fathering
feeding
fermenting
figuration
figure
firing
fleshing out
following up
fomenting
forging
form
format
formation
forwarding
fosterage
fostering
foundation
founding
framing
furthering
gaining
galvanizing
gardening
gathering
generating
gentility
germinating
getting
giving
giving air to
gleaning
glorifying
grace
growing
guiding
hailing
hammering
handcrafting
harvesting
heave
heaving
hefting
heightening
helpful
hike
hiking
hoist
hoisting
honoring
humane
humanizing
hyping
imagining
improving
improvisation
inaugurating
inciting
increase
increasing
increment
indoctrinating
inflaming
inflating
influential
initiating
innovating
inspirational
inspiring
instigating
instituting
instructing
instructive
intensification
intensifying
interjecting
interrupting
introducing
inventing
invention
invigorating
jerry-building
jump
jump up
jumping
kicking upstairs
knighting
lauding
leading
learned
leg up
lengthening
levitation
liberal
liberalizing
lifting
liftoff
lineage
looking
magnification
magnifying
makeup
making
making up
manners
manufacture
manufacturing
maternity
maximizing
mentioning
mentoring
minding
mold
molding
mooting
motherhood
mothering
motivating
mounting
move up
multiplying
naming
naturalizing
nourishing
nursing
nurture
nurturing
obtaining
offering
organizing
originating
origination
ornamenting
outline
padding
parenthood
parenting
parlaying
paternity
picking
picking up
piecing
pitching
placing
plan
planning
planting
polish
polishing
praising
prefab
prefabricating
prefabrication
preparing
proclaiming
procuring
producing
prolonging
promoting
promotion
propagating
proposing
protracting
provoking
publishing
pulling
pumping up
putting across
putting forth
putting over
putting together
putting up
quickening
raise
reaping
rearing
reassembling
rebuilding
reconstructing
redeveloping
reedifying
reenforcing
refined
refinement
refining
regenerative
reinforcing
retrofitting
revealing
ripening
rise
rising
roadwork
rooting
rousing
saluting
saying
schooling
securing
setting
setting in motion
setting off
setting up
shape
shaping
shepherding
showing
skyrocketing
soar
socializing
sounding
sounding off
sowing
speaking out
speaking up
spiking
sprouting
stating
step-up
stimulating
stoking
strengthening
stretching
structure
submitting
suggesting
supersizing
supplementing
supplying
supporting
swelling
system
systematization
takeoff
taking in
taking up
teaching
tending
throwing up
thrust
training
triggering
turn
tutoring
type
uncloaking
uncovering
uniting
unmasking
unveiling
upbringing
upending
upgrading
upheaval
upholding
uplifting
upping
upraising
upsurge
upsweep
upswing
upthrust
uptrend
upturn
upwelling
urbanity
ventilating
venting
vitalizing
voicing
wangling
watching
widening
wresting
wringing
writing
writing up

Antonyms for raising

abasing
abating
abbreviating
abridgement
abridging
abridgment
abusing
allaying
bad manners
bearing
blowing up
bridling
calming
censoring
censuring
checking
comedown
compressing
compression
condemning
condensation
condensing
constraining
constricting
contracting
contraction
crudeness
curbing
curtailing
cutting
cutting back
damning
de-escalating
decline
decrease
decreasing
deduction
degrading
demeaning
demolishing
demoting
demounting
denouncing
deposing
depressing
descending
descent
destroying
destruction
detaching
dethroning
devastating
digging
diminishing
dip
dipping
disarrangement
disassembling
disconnecting
discouraging
discourtesy
disengaging
disfigurement
disgracing
dishonoring
disjoining
dismantling
dismembering
dismissing
disorganization
disregarding
disuniting
dive
dividing
down
downfall
downgrade
downgrading
downsizing
drop
dropping
dwindling
expelling
exploding
extirpating
fall
falling
flattening
forgetting
harming
haying
holding
humbling
humiliating
hurting
ignoring
ill-treating
ill-using
impeaching
inhibiting
injuring
killing
knocking down
lessening
leveling
levelling
lowering
maltreating
minifying
mishandling
missing
mistreating
mortifying
mowing
neglecting
nosedive
ousting
overlooking
overpassing
overthrowing
pass
passing over
picking
pitching
plop
plucking
plummeting
plunge
plunging
pressing
pulling down
pulverizing
pushing
quieting
razing
reducing
reduction
regulating
rejection
removing
reprobating
repudiation
restraining
restricting
retrenching
rudeness
ruin
ruinating
ruining
ruins
separating
settling
shaming
shattering
shortening
shrinkage
silencing
sinking
slipping
smashing
soothing
stifling
stilling
striking
subduing
submerging
suppressing
taking down
taming
tearing down
tranquilizing
tranquillizing
truth
unmaking
unseating
uprooting
withdrawal
wrecking

Meanings of raising

verb
1. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
2. To create, increase or develop.
3. To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
4. To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
5. To exponentiate, to involute.
6. (of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
7. (of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
8. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
9. To throw (an exception).
noun
1. Elevation.
2. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
3. Recruitment.
4. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
5. The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
6. The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
7. A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
8. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
9. The substance used to make bread rise.
10. The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Example Sentences

She's raising money for charity by organizing a bake sale.
The company is raising the salaries of its employees due to increased profits.
They are raising a new generation of leaders through mentorship programs.
The farmer is raising cattle and sheep on his ranch.
We are raising awareness about environmental issues through educational campaigns.

On this page you'll find 631 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to raising, such as: abasing, abating, abbreviating, abetting, abridgement, abridging, abridgment.

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