To go up, ascend.

To rise with its summit (as a tree), or surface (as water); to grow taller, or higher, to swell up. Obsolete: see rise, v.

intransitive. To extend directly upwards or away from the ground or other (specified) surface or point; to form an elevation from the level. Also…

intransitive. To rise up towards a vertical position or into the air; to rise high, to tower.

intransitive. To become high or higher; to increase in height; to rise. Now rare.

intransitive. To rise erect, mount upwards. Also with up. Obsolete.

intransitive and transitive. To climb up; to ascend.

intransitive. To rise or shoot up like a flame, spire, or pyramid (obsolete); figurative to rise or mount up continuously in honour, dignity, rank…

transferred. Of a building, or anything rising in the air: To rise or ascend heavily, irregularly, or steeply, as if ‘struggling upward’.

With up or equivalent phrase: To extend vertically upwards; to tower, ‘rise’ into the air.

intransitive. To rise up. rare.

To rise by process of growth or construction; to be raised or reared, to erect itself. Only poetic. Cf. arise, v. 16.

intransitive. To increase in height or length; to extend or grow out from something in a curving upward direction. Sometimes with up.

intransitive. To rise up like a spear. Also, of a plant: to thrust up spear-like leaves.