English words containing rising:

Meanings of Extemporising:

verb

Compose or perform something such as music or a speech without preparation; improvise.

Usage examples:

He extemporized at the piano

Meanings of Exteriorising:

verb

Make exterior; give exterior form to.

Usage examples:

What the greeks did do was exteriorize their intellectual life, make it convivial and explicit

Meanings of Familiarising:

verb

Give (someone) knowledge or understanding of something.

Usage examples:

The need to familiarize pupils with dictionaries and their structures

phrasal verb

To learn about something

Usage examples:

We spent a few minutes familiarizing ourselves with the day's schedule.

Meanings of Formularising:

verb

Make formulaic or predictable.

Usage examples:

Their stage shows have become a little formularized

Meanings of Grangerising:

verb

Illustrate (a book) by later insertion of material, especially prints cut from other works.

Usage examples:

He became a great favourite with the queen, and grangerized many historical works for her amusement

Meanings of Irising:

verb

(of an aperture, typically that of a lens) open or close in the manner of an iris or iris diaphragm.

Usage examples:

Ann tugged at his arm and pointed down to the hull's underbelly: a round opening had irised out in …

noun

A flat, coloured, ring-shaped membrane behind the cornea of the eye, with an adjustable circular opening (pupil) in the centre.

Usage examples:

The thin sheet of circular muscle of the iris which constricts the pupil of the eye is also known a…

proper noun

The goddess of the rainbow, who acted as a messenger of the gods.

Meanings of Linearising:

verb

Make linear; represent in or transform into a linear form.

Usage examples:

Air was focused and linearized by the air pump

Meanings of Martyrising:

verb

Kill (someone) because of their beliefs.

Usage examples:

The cross on which the apostle was martyrized

Meanings of Militarising:

verb

Equip or supply (a place, organization, etc.) with soldiers and other military resources.

Usage examples:

The commander said the deployment of missles would be contrary to the country's pledge not to milit…

Meanings of Motorising:

verb

Equip (a vehicle or device) with a motor to operate or propel it.

Usage examples:

The modern car evolved from initial attempts to motorize a horse-drawn carriage

Meanings of Overrising:

verb

Of dough, bread, etc.: to rise too high, so as to spoil.

Meanings of Particularising:

verb

Treat individually or in detail.

Usage examples:

He was the first to particularize themes in the poetry

Meanings of Pasteurising:

verb

Subject (milk, wine, or other products) to a process of partial sterilization, especially one involving heat treatment or irradiation, thus making the product safe for consumption and improving its keeping quality.

Usage examples:

Dairies were now required by law to pasteurize milk

Meanings of Pauperising:

verb

Make very poor; impoverish.

Usage examples:

The party pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people

Meanings of Plagiarising:

verb

Take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.

Usage examples:

He was fined $6,000 for having plagiarized the song

Meanings of Polarising:

verb

Restrict the vibrations of (a transverse wave, especially light) wholly or partially to one direction.

Usage examples:

Some of the light is polarized so that it vibrates in only one plane

Meanings of Popularising:

verb

Cause (something) to become generally liked.

Usage examples:

His books have done much to popularize the sport

Meanings of Prising:

verb

Use force in order to move, move apart, or open (something).

Usage examples:

I tried to prise joe's fingers away from the stick

Meanings of Pulverising:

verb

Reduce to fine particles.

Usage examples:

The brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment

Meanings of Rearising:

verb

To arise again.

Meanings of Reprising:

verb

Repeat (a piece of music or a performance).

Usage examples:

He reprises his role as the vigilante architect

noun

A repeated passage in music.

Usage examples:

After a reprise of the music for horns and piano for another short male solo, the coda begins in vi…

Meanings of Rising:

adjective

Going up, increasing, or sloping upward.

Usage examples:

The rising temperature

noun

An armed protest against authority; a revolt.

Usage examples:

The warsaw rising of 1944

verb

Move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up.

Usage examples:

The tiny aircraft rose from the ground

Meanings of Risings:

noun

An armed protest against authority; a revolt.

Usage examples:

The warsaw rising of 1944

adjective

Going up, increasing, or sloping upward.

Usage examples:

The rising temperature

Meanings of Rubberising:

verb

Treat or coat (something) with rubber.

Usage examples:

They applied for a grant to rubberize the playground surface

Meanings of Satirising:

verb

Deride and criticize by means of satire.

Usage examples:

The movie satirized the notion of national superiority