to raise one's hands in supplication or surrender: to give up, to quit, to surrender / to strike someone, or to threaten to do so: to raise one's fist, to raise one's hand against someone

a question

a hand / a handle, grip / a paw, foreleg / a way of acting, means / (board games) a move, play

to ask a question

I have a question

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to raise / to increase / to lift / to improve / to elevate / to promote / to advance /

strengthens the prefixed adjective or adjectival noun