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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun uplift has 2 senses
- uplift(n = noun.event) upheaval, upthrow, upthrust - (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building); Array is a kind of ascension, ascent, rise, rising
- uplift(n = noun.artifact) Array - a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts; Array is a kind of bandeau, bra, brassiere
Derived form verb uplift2
Derived form verb uplift3
Verb uplift has 3 senses
- uplift(v = verb.emotion) elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" is one way to excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir
- uplift(v = verb.motion) Array - lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town" is one way to arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise
- uplift(v = verb.motion) Array - lift up or elevate; Array is one way to push up
Sample sentences:
The good news will uplift her
The performance is likely to uplift Sue
Derived form noun uplift1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Derived forms noun uplift2, noun uplifting1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
uplift, v. t.
To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
"Satan, talking to his nearest mate,
With head uplift above the wave, and eyes
That sparkling blazed." [1913 Webster]
With head uplift above the wave, and eyes
That sparkling blazed." [1913 Webster]
uplift, n.
A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
uplift, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 raise; lift up.
2 elevate or stimulate morally or spiritually.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of being raised.
2 Geol. the raising of part of the earth's surface.
3 colloq. a morally or spiritually elevating influence.
4 support for the bust etc. from a garment.
--v.tr.
1 raise; lift up.
2 elevate or stimulate morally or spiritually.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of being raised.
2 Geol. the raising of part of the earth's surface.
3 colloq. a morally or spiritually elevating influence.
4 support for the bust etc. from a garment.
Derivative
uplifter n. uplifting adj. (esp. in sense 2 of v.).
THESAURUS
uplift
Great Leap Forward, abruptness, acclivity, acculturate, advance, advancement, aggrandize, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, anabasis, apotheose, apotheosis, apotheosize, ascension, ascent, assumption, bear up, beatification, beatify, better, bettering, betterment, boost, bring forward, buoy, buoy up, canonization, canonize, cast up, civilize, clamber, climb, climbing, crown, deification, deify, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, emend, enhance, enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine, enshrinement, enthrone, erect, erection, escalade, escalate, escalation, eugenics, euthenics, exalt, exaltation, fatten, favor, float, float high, flush, forward, foster, fountain, furtherance, glamorize, glorify, go straight, gush, gyring up, headway, heave, heft, height, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, illume, illumine, immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, increase, irradiate, jerk up, jet, jump, knock up, lard, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, lift up, lifting, lionize, lob, loft, magnify, make an improvement, make legendary, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount, mounting, nurture, perk up, pick up, pickup, pitch, precipitousness, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion, raise, raise aloft, raise up, raising, rear, rear aloft, rear up, rearing, recovery, refine upon, reform, restoration, revival, ride high, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, saint, saltation, sanctify, set up, shooting up, sky, soaring, socialize, spout, spring, spurt, stand upright, steepness, stick up, straighten out, surge, sursum corda, sustain, take up, takeoff, taking off, throne, throw up, transfigure, transform, up, upbear, upbeat, upbuoy, upbuoying, upcast, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upend, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, upheaval, upheave, uphill, uphoist, uphold, upleap, uplifting, upping, upraise, uprear, uprearing, upright, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upthrow, upthrust, uptrend, upward mobility, vault, verticalness, waft, zoomingROGET THESAURUS
uplift
Elevation
VB heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect, set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up, rear, hoist, heave, uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave, buoy, weigh mount, give a lift, exalt, sublimate, place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal, escalate 102, take up, drag up, fish up, dredge, stand up, rise up, get up, jump up, spring to one's feet, hold oneself, hold one's head up, drawn oneself up to his full height.
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