verb
- Raise from a lower to a higher position.
- usage: "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
- Take hold of something and move it to a different location.
- usage: "lift the box onto the table"
- synonyms: lift
- Move upwards.
- usage: "lift one's eyes"
- Move upward.
- usage: "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- Make audible.
- usage: "He lifted a war whoop"
- synonyms: lift
- Cancel officially.
- usage: "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- Make off with belongings of others.
- Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
- usage: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- Invigorate or heighten.
- usage: "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
- Raise in rank or condition.
- usage: "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
- Take off or away by decreasing.
- usage: "lift the pressure"
- synonyms: lift
- Rise up.
- usage: "The building rose before them"
- Pay off (a mortgage.
- synonyms: lift
- Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.
- synonyms: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift
- Take illegally.
- usage: "rustle cattle"
- Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means.
- usage: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
- Take (root crops) out of the ground.
- usage: "lift potatoes"
- synonyms: lift
- Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.
- synonyms: lift
- Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture.
- usage: "The floor is lifting slowly"
- synonyms: lift
- Put an end to.
- usage: "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
- Remove (hair) by scalping.
- synonyms: lift
- Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery.
- usage: "lift the tulip bulbs"
- synonyms: lift
- Remove from a surface.
- usage: "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
- synonyms: lift
- Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face.
adjective
- Held up in the air.
- usage: "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"
- synonyms: upraised
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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