Raise
Raise verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
Upset
How words are described
| good | good raise | good upset |
| better | better raise | better upset |
| massive | massive raise | massive upset |
| large | large raise | large upset |
| Other adjectives: huge, major, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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I Want Them Alive: When Dufayel hires Mon Hellsing to hunt down Benjamin Hares, the mongoose is upset that he has to keep the target alive instead of killing them like he'd usually do, yet agrees to do it only for a raise.
Source: Fanfic / Old West - But don't you dare upset her, or else she'll sic the vines on your ass, or raise a forest under your ass.
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In How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Tomoya, who claims to only like 2D girls, gets rather upset when he seems Megumi walk into the restaurant he was working part time at, with her male cousin.
Source: Crazy Jealous Guy
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