Fell
Fell verb - To deprive of life.
Usage example: the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal
Raise
Raise verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He even manages to raise a happy family with his wife Toriel, his son Asriel, and an adoptive human child who fell into the Underground.
Source: Hope Bringer -
Her mother wanted nothing to do with her, so it fell mostly to her father to raise her.
Source: Raised by Dudes -
Wife Husbandry: The legendary King Cophetua had no interest in women until he fell in love with a beggar child and decided to raise her to be his queen.
Source: Creator / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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