raising

  • (s) increasing in quantity or value
    • a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate

Nouns

  • (n) the event of something being raised upward
    • an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
    • a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
    elevation, lift,
  • (n) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child nurture, rearing,
  • (n) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
    • they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
    bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing, breeding,

Synonyms

elevation lift nurture rearing bringing up fosterage fostering upbringing breeding

Words of close approximity

raisin
raising hell