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Synonyms for arise

verb

  1. To get up

    rise, get up, stand up, stand, wake up, awake, get out of bed, get out of a chair, get to one's feet, jump up, turn out*; roll out*, hit the deck*.

    Antonyms fall*, sit*, lie*.

  2. To ascend

    mount, go up, climb; see rise 1.

  3. To come into being

    rise, spring, emanate, originate, issue, proceed, derive, stem, flow, begin, start, crop up, appear, emerge, occur, ensue, result; see also begin 2.

arise and rise both imply a coming into being, action, notice, etc., but arise is often used to indicate a causal relationship accidents arise from carelessness and rise carries an implication of ascent empires rise and fall; spring implies sudden emergence weeds sprang up in the garden; originate is used in indicating a definite source, beginning, or prime cause psychoanalysis originated with Freud; derive implies a proceeding or developing from something else that is the source this word derives from the Latin; flow suggests a streaming from a source like water ``Praise God, from whom all blessings flow""; issue suggests emergence through an outlet not a word issued from his lips; emanate implies the flowing forth from a source of something that is nonmaterial or intangible rays of light emanating from the sun; stem implies outgrowth as from a root or a main stalk modern detective fiction stems from Poe

See arise in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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