arise

uh-RYZ/əˈɹaɪz/

4 meanings of arise

1
verbintransitive
To come into being, action, or notice, presenting itself or beginning to take effect.
Several problems arise when teams skip the planning stage.
A rare opportunity arose while she was traveling abroad.
Similaremerge, occur, develop, appear, surface
Oppositedisappear, vanish
Note
The abstract use is no late metaphor stretched from the physical sense. Old English ārīsan could already mean "spring from, originate." Its natural subjects are problems, issues, challenges and opportunities. The verb takes no object, so something simply arises; nobody arises a problem. When you need a doer, switch verbs: a problem arises, but someone raises it.
2
verbintransitive
To rise or move upward from a lower place or position.
Bubbles arise from the bottom of the boiling pot.
A flock of startled birds arose from the marsh.
Similarrise, spring
Oppositedescend, sink, fall
Note
Old English ārīsan, built from a- and rise, sits behind every use of the word, and its Proto-Germanic ancestor already meant "to rise up." The verb is irregular in the same way as rise: arise, arose, arisen. Arised exists, and so does arose used as a past participle, but both are nonstandard. Write "the question has arisen," never "has arose."
3
verbintransitive
To get up from bed or from a place of rest.
Monks arise well before sunrise to begin their prayers.
The farmhands arose at first light to bring in the harvest.
Similarawaken
Oppositeretire

Less common meaning

4
nounobsolete
The act of rising; a movement to a higher position.
The arise of the morning star guided the weary travelers.
And if before the Sunne haue meaſured heauen With triple circuit thou regreet vs not, We meane to take his mornings next ariſe. For meſſenger, he will not be reclaim’d, And meane to fetch thee in deſpight of him.
c. 1587, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part
Note
A noun that did not survive. In Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, written c. 1587–1588, a threat hangs on "his mornings next arise," meaning the sun's next rising. Rising and arising have since taken over this job, and arise now works only as a verb. Use the noun only when deliberately imitating older English, because elsewhere it reads as a slip.

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Origin

From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan ("to arise, get up, rise, originate"), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną ("to rise up"); it is equivalent to a- plus rise. It has cognates in several Germanic languages, including Gothic urreisan ("to arise").