to raise awareness
37
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /reɪz əˈwɛrnəs/
:
concienciar
- Through their actions and words, they raise awareness around the often-ignored issue of men's health.
- raise awareness of issues
- need to raise awareness
- raise awareness of the importance
So and it all started from raising awareness.
- So and it all started from raising awareness.
- And I am trying to raise awareness that this goes on in the UK today.
- And I like to talk about it and raise awareness about it because it's just not OK.
- This right here, this is, you know, my whole goal is to raise awareness.
- And so it was really about raising awareness for traumatic brain injury and prevention.
- It's an event driven movement to raise awareness and from the ground up.
- And so that just made me more like agitated and pushed me even more to raise awareness about the issue.
- And and more on what that is, how to get involved and help to raise money and raise awareness later.
- So I need to feel these feelings, to keep that fire in my belly, to keep speaking out, keep raising awareness.
- Trying to do my best to raise awareness and change the landscape there is so so to start with, absolutely.
- They have a meth epidemic and they wanted to raise awareness, so here you go.
- So what what the group that I was with did was we raised, we raised awareness around it.
Examples
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Preliminary evaluation indicates the program is effective as an educational tool in raising awareness of environmental health risks.
Academic text (1993) -
The attention they received helped raise awareness of the extinction crisis among both the zoological community and the general public.
Academic text (2007) -
And our first concern was to raise awareness a bit about cancer.
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And I am trying to raise awareness that this goes on in the UK today.
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Our job is to raise awareness.
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People are using social media to raise awareness about the crisis in Sudan.
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A company made pink gloves and sold them to hospitals to raise awareness for breast cancer.
Blog text (5) -
Publications and conferences conducted through the United Nations on orphans and AIDS issues raise awareness and encourage nations to act.
Academic text (2006) -
Our new social marketing campaigns are geared toward raising awareness and addressing stigma.
Blog text (2) -
People are using social media to raise awareness about the crisis in Sudan.
Synonyms
252
3.5
Tell people about a product to increase sales
94
4.0
Make something known to many people using news or social media
71
2.5
To make people notice something or someone
55
4.8
To give someone clear information to help them understand something
47
2.6
Tell many people about something so they know it exists
31
3.2
Tell many people about something so they know
29
2.9
To make people notice something important
22
7.4
To tell someone about news or a change
3
3.7
Make someone understand something they did not know before
To tell many people about something so they know it
Antonyms
How Widespread
- Literature
26
3.4
3
4.3
37
3.5
22
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to make more people conscious or informed' is directly derived from combining 'raise' (to increase or bring up) with 'awareness' (the ability to notice or understand); the sense of increasing awareness is fully compositional. This verb + noun collocation is common and mirrors patterns in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase raise awareness gives a simple image: to raise is to lift something up and awareness is people's attention. So, like lifting a flag so more people can see it, to raise awareness means 'to make more people notice and understand a problem'.