Raise
Raise verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
How words are described
| good | good raise | good scale |
| normal | normal raise | normal scale |
| simple | simple raise | simple scale |
| small | small raise | small scale |
| Other adjectives: massive, large, big, enormous, huge, new, major, astronomical, higher, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He would get used to it: the Swedish army always attacked, no matter what the odds werenote they had to: Sweden didn't have the manpower to raise armies on the scale of its enemies.
Source: Leeroy Jenkins - Though ancient sources were prone to exaggeration, the Achaemenids could raise armies on an unprecedented scale.
- Sometimes it's an Invoked Trope: if something is easy enough to raise on a large scale, it makes sense to try and find as many ways to use it as you can.
Source: Multipurpose Monocultured Crop
Cite this Source
Scale and Raise. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/raise/scale
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