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rise above

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rise above
vb
(intr, preposition) to overcome or be unaffected by (something mean or contemptible)
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? rise above
vi +prep obj level of inflation etcansteigen um mehr als; insults etcerhaben sein über (+acc), → stehen über (+dat)


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For the highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as naturalists agree, at least they were never known to do so in that country.
Nevertheless, all hope is not shut out, even from the Isosceles, that his posterity may ultimately rise above his degraded condition.
The moon, then in her last quarter, was beginning to rise above the horizon.
 
 
 
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