raised
adjective
fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
self-raised
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a word derived from
raised.
Example Sentences
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Mruvka has been working on the Look for three years and is launching with about $10 million in self-raised investment capital.
From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2010
Nor him self-raised to Gallia’s throne, Who, rushing with his martial hordes, Cast Europe’s ancient sceptres down, And made his slaves her sov’reign lords.
From A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper
Thus, whenever doubt obtruded itself, she poured a self-raised tide over it and concealed it.
From Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford
"The rudest habitation, ye might think That it had sprung from earth self-raised, or grown Out of the living rock."
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
He was a self-raised man, known to be dependent upon his own exertions, and liked from the willingness with which he gave his help to accused persons on their trials.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
