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Rifer vs Riser - What's the difference?

rifer | riser |

As an adjective rifer

is comparative of rife.

As a noun riser is

someone or something which rises.

rifer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (rife)

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    rife

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
    • Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
  • * Milton
    • The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
    • The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
    • They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
  • Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
    • These woodlands are rife with red deer.
  • (obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
  • * J. Webster
    • What! I am rife a little yet.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Plentifully, abundantly.
    • The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

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    riser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something which rises.
  • A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
    • The choir stood on risers for the performance.
  • The vertical part of a step on a staircase.
  • (archery) The main body of a bow.
  • A conduit or path between floors of a building for placement of telephone, networking, and other utility cables.
  • A Manx cat with an extremely short tail.

    • Antonyms

    * (vertical part of a step) run, tread

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