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Phrase(s): raise someone or something up
to lift someone or something up. • The aides raised the patient up while the nurse spread clean linen beneath him. • Jane raised up the lid., Phrase(s): raise up
to lift oneself up; to get up or begin to get up. • She raised up and then fell back onto her bed. She was too weak to get up. • I could not raise up enough to see out the window.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs