(verb) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
"You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!"
"The harder you fall, the harder you rise."
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."