raising

adjective

  1. 1

    increasing in quantity or value

    a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate

noun

  1. 1

    helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

    they debated whether nature or nurture was more important

  2. 2

    the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

  3. 3

    the event of something being raised upward

    an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon

    a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity

Synonyms

Also useful for “raising”:Unscrambler