Examples:
The cartel raised the price of oil last week.
Medidation may raise your awareness of being alive.
The dough raised to twice its original size in three hours.
He's raising hearts.
I'll see you and raise you twenty.
Ten raised to the 100th power is a large number.
The sunshine and singing birds raised his spirit.
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 1, 13, 15, 16, 17, 23, 25
Examples:
I raised my skirts to step over the mud puddle.
Raise the flag high!
Slowly, she raised her eyes up towards the tiny window near the ceiling.
You need to raise your e's more.
See how the artist has raised the edges of figures here?
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 2, 8, 20, 24
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
raise_up 1
Commentary:
NOTE:
Examples:
They raised their voices to the heavens.
The hooligans raised hell at the last soccer match.
Those old time fiddlers really raised the roof last night!
He is raising a ruckus over that parking ticket.
He raised the roof when he heard about the tuition increase.
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 3, 11, 21
Examples:
They need to raise taxes to finance the war.
The king raised an army of ten thousand.
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 4, 18
Examples:
They raised corn and hogs where I grew up.
She is basically raising her sister's kids.
The crops you could raise on this land wouldn't pay enough to raise a family of four.
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 5, 6
Examples:
The specter of famine has again been raised.
I couldn't so much as raise a smile out of him.
I wish she'd stop raising the issue of her rotten marriage.
They managed to raise Hanoi last night on the shortwave radio.
You might as well try to raise the dead as get him to change his views.
Mappings:
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 7, 10, 19, 22, 27
Examples:
She has worked hard to raise the teaching standards at her school.
They have raised him to the rank of Colonel.
Mappings:
PropBank: 01
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 12, 14
Examples:
Will you help us raise the new barn this weekend?
Mappings:
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 9
Examples:
They decided to raise the sanctions against that country.
Mappings:
WordNet 2.1 Sense Numbers: 26