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quicken, encourage, develop: The news about the new company
raised our hopes of finding jobs. 8 open, introduce, initiate,
broach, bring up, bring or put forward, present, suggest,
mention, moot: It is regrettable that you saw fit to raise such
a delicate issue. 9 remove, relieve, lift, abandon, eliminate,
discontinue, (bring to an) end, terminate: Restrictions on
travel to south-east Asia were about to be raised. 10 cause,
provoke, evoke, occasion, put or set in motion, institute,
prompt, engender, stir up, instigate, inspire, give rise to,
bring about, arouse, originate: Objections to the relaxation of
safety regulations were raised by relatives of the victims of
the earlier disaster. 11 utter, express, bring up, put forward,
shout, call: Was it you who raised the alarm at the first sign
of smoke? 12 assemble, obtain, get, collect, amass, solicit:
We raised twice as much for charity as last year. 13
invigorate, animate, vitalize, vivify, buoy, lift, uplift, cheer
(up), exhilarate, elate: Our spirits were raised considerably
by the news from head office.
rake° v. 1 Often, rake up. scrape together, gather (together or up),
collect, draw together: You really must rake up the leaves from
the lawn and burn them. 2 scrape, comb, scratch, grate, graze:
Don't you just hate the sound of a fingernail being raked across
a blackboard? 3 rake in. collect, gather (up or in), pull in,
make: Pamela is raking in the royalties from her latest
thriller. 4 rake it in. coin money, make money
(hand-over-fist), Brit coin it in: The new record shop in the
mall is really raking it in. 5 rake out. sift (out), screen,
remove, clear, eliminate: Please rake out the cinders from the
grate. 6 rake over or through. search, probe, ransack, scour,
comb, rummage through, pick through or over, go through or over
(with a fine-tooth(ed) comb), rifle (through): The police raked
through her entire flat but found nothing incriminating. 7 rake
up. a See 1, above. b revive, resuscitate, resurrect, raise,
bring up, recall: Must you persist in raking up those bad
memories? 8 rake up or together. gather, scrape up or together,
collect, drag together, pick up, dig up, dredge up, find,
unearth: Were you able to rake up the others for a game of
poker tonight?
rakeý n. libertine, womanizer, lecher, rou‚, playboy, ladies' man,
Don Juan, Casanova, Lothario, debauchee, voluptuary, profligate,
prodigal; scoundrel, rascal, cad, Archaic rakehell, masher;