RAISED :  adj 1: above the surround or above the normal position; "a raised design"; "raised eyebrows" [ant: lowered] 2: embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery; "brocaded silk"; "an embossed satin"; "embossed leather"; "raised needlework"; "raised metalwork" [syn: brocaded, embossed] 3: leavened usually with yeast; "raised bread" 4: increased especially to abnormal levels; "the raised prices frightened away customers"; "inflated wages"; "an inflated economy" [syn: raised(a), inflated]

accelerated, aggrandized, ampliate, amplified, assembled, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, bold, boosted, bossed, bossy, broadened, brought about, built, built-up, cast, caused, chased, constructed, crafted, created, crescendoed, custom, custom-built, custom-made, deepened, done, effectuated, elevated, embossed, enhanced, enlarged, erect, exalted, executed, expanded, extended, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, heightened, high, hiked, homemade, homespun, in relief, increased, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, lifted, lofty, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, magnified, man-made, manufactured, mass-produced, milled, mined, molded, multiplied, on stilts, performed, prefab, prefabricated, processed, produced, proliferated, put together, rampant, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, reinforced, shaped, smelted, spread, stand-up, stiffened, stilted, straight-up, strengthened, sublime, swollen, tightened, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upped, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding, upthrown, well-built, well-constructed, well-made, widened,

Raise \Raise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised; p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to beRAISED : to great titles. --Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: (a) To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [AE]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxxix. 3. (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. ``To raise up a rent.'' --Chaucer. (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. ``He raised sheep.'' ``He raised wheat where none grew before.'' --Johnson's Dict.

RAISED : \Raised\, a. 1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised beach. See under Beach, n.