Meanings
verbtake one's rise (third-person singular simple present takes one's rise, present participle taking one's rise, simple past took one's rise, past participle taken one's rise)
present singular third person takes one's rise · participle present taking one's rise · past took one's rise · participle past taken one's rise
- To originate.
Two miles from the summit is the spring from which the Colorado River takes its rise.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 34
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