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riz verb Past tense of rise.

1859 Taliaferro Fisher’s River 84 Why, I hitched to the limb uv a big tree bent to the yeth with pigeons, you numskull, and when they riz the tree went up, and old Nip with it, fur sure. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 284 In many cases a weak preterite supplants the proper strong one: div, driv, fit, gi'n or give, rid, riv, riz, writ. 1940 Haun Hawk’s Done 29 She thought the sun riz and set in Amy. 1973 GSMNP-76:4 It [=the still] was in the prettiest basin and spring that riz straight up from that place.