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The French word

hausser

means
to raise
Examples:
Il haussa les sourcils.
He raised his eyebrows.
Sami dut hausser le ton.
Sami had to raise his voice.
Sami se mit à hausser le ton.
Sami started raising his voice.
Sa réaction instinctive a été de hausser la voix contre son enfant.
His knee-jerk reaction was to raise his voice at his child.
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org