Raise is (usually) a transitive verb that means to lift, heighten, or promote. The transitive verb raze means to destroy or demolish. Rise is an intransitive verb that means to get up or increase.
In the U.S. and Canada, an increase in salary is called a raise. In the U.K., it's a rise.Examples:
- "We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest." (Thomas Jefferson)
- Local developers recently gained approval to raze the old factory.
- "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." (Winston Churchill)
Practice:
(a) You need a whole community to _____ a child.(b) "Every employee tends to _____ to his level of incompetence." (Laurence J. Peter)
(c) The city hired contractors to _____ the abandoned pork processing building and clean up the debris.
