risen
past participle of
rise
Meaning of risen in English
(Definition of risen from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of risen
risen
As the federal government's policy responsibilities have risen, the political capacity to manage its own affairs - especially fiscal affairs - has fallen.
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Sometime in the early nineteenth century these forms began to increase and have risen exponentially in frequency since that time.
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All this meant that the funds being spent on the armed forces had risen to about 25 per cent of the nation's total budget.
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The proportion living in sheltered accommodation had risen since follow-up, while fewer of the sample lived with parents.
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While middle class visiting and telephone contact has fallen, due to increased geographical mobility and women's labour participation, working class contact has risen.
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Clearly the practice of science in the late eighteenth century had become increasingly identified with the bourgeoisie, and the numbers of participants had risen tremendously.
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At the same time, the frequency of the appointment of non-partisan cabinet members has risen.
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However, the area under the forest cover has risen with the other types of the uncultivable lands being clubbed along with the forests.
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Questions about confession had risen around the preliminary hearings, and some of the judges may have let their personal persuasions be known.
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Moreover, the proportion of students relying on commercial credit had risen since 1998/99, as had the average amount they borrowed from these sources.
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It is formally indexed to prices but has so far risen faster than prices, on par with wages, on an ad hoc basis.
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In private or voluntary residential homes the proportion of people who are highly dependent had risen by 28%.
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As noted in the introduction, natural gas production has risen substantially only in recent years (mid-1980s).
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And once totalitarianism had risen to power, it then demanded institutional analysis in order to understand how it functioned and maintained power through terror.
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As a result, the market share of managed care insurers who take an active role in managing the delivery of care has risen dramatically (25).
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