Resurge vs. Rise — What's the Difference?

To rise again; undergo resurgence

To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.

To rise again; to go through a period of renewed vigor or vitality.

To get out of bed

A resurgence.

To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend

Rise again;

To increase in size, volume, or level

To increase in number, amount, or value

To increase in intensity, force, or speed

To increase in pitch or volume

To ascend above the horizon

To extend upward; be prominent

To slant or slope upward

To come into existence; originate

To be erected

To appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.

To puff up or become larger; swell up

To become stiff and erect

To attain a higher status

To become apparent to the mind or senses

To uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge

To return to life

To rebel

To close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.

To cause to rise

To cause (a distant object at sea) to become visible above the horizon by advancing closer.

The act of rising; an ascent.

The degree of elevation or ascent.

The first appearance of a celestial object as it ascends above the horizon.

An increase in height, as of the level of water.

A gently sloped hill.

A long broad elevation that slopes gently from the earth's surface or the ocean floor.

An origin, beginning, or source

Occasion or opportunity

The emergence of a fish seeking food or bait at the water's surface.

An increase in price, worth, quantity, or degree.

An increase in intensity, volume, or pitch.

Elevation in status, prosperity, or importance

The height of a flight of stairs or of a single riser.

Chiefly British An increase in salary or wages; a raise.

(Informal) An angry or irritated reaction

The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear.

(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

To move upwards.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

To slope upward.

(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.

To become erect; to assume an upright position.

To leave one's bed; to get up.

(figurative) To be resurrected.

(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.

To attain a higher status.

Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

To begin, to develop; to be initiated.

To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.

To develop.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).

To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.

To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.

(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.

(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

To come; to offer itself.

To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

An increase in a quantity, price, etc.

Ellipsis of pay risean increase in wage or salary.

The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

(informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.

(architecture) The height of an arch or a step.

Alternative form of rice

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: - (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

To increase in power or fury; - said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

In various figurative senses.

To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

To become of higher value; to increase in price.

To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

To become larger; to swell; - said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

To increase in intensity; - said of heat.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; - said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; - said of a form.

To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

To come; to offer itself.

To retire; to give up a siege.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.

To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise.

The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

A growth in strength or number or importance

The act of changing location in an upward direction

An upward slope or grade (as in a road);

A movement upward;

The amount a salary is increased;

The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost;

An increase in cost;

Increase in price or value;

Move upward;

Increase in value or to a higher point;

Rise to one's feet;

Rise up;

Come to the surface

Become more extreme;

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

Be promoted, move to a better position

Go up or advance;

Get up and out of bed;

Rise in rank or status;

Increase in volume;

Become heartened or elated;

Exert oneself to meet a challenge;

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

Come up, of celestial bodies;

Return from the dead;