Rising and Starting

Rising

Rising adjective - Sloping upward.

Starting and rising are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starting" instead an adjective "Rising".

Nearby Words: rise, risen

Starting

Starting adjective - Appropriate to the beginning or start of an event.

Rising and starting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rising" instead an adjective "Starting".

Nearby Words: start, started, starter, startup

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Michael Collins Badass: Michael Collins, starting as a failed bit player in the Easter rising before becoming a Magnificent Bastard Western Terrorist who brings the British authorities in Ireland to their knees.
  • Literature / The Turner Diaries Slavs are starting to become more accepted in White Nationalist environs, partly because of Russian conduct in Chechnya and Syria, and partly because of rising Far-Right sentiment in that country.
  • Film / Titanic (1997) Rising Water, Rising Tension: Almost inevitably, Jack and Rose's final escape from the doomed ship involves a race through rooms slowly filling with water (and starting to tilt at an alarming angle).
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