lifted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb raise from a lower to a higher position
    elevate; get up; lift; bring up; raise.
    • Raise your hands
    • Lift a load
  2. verb take hold of something and move it to a different location
    lift.
    • lift the box onto the table
  3. verb move upwards
    lift; raise.
    • lift one's eyes
  4. verb move upward
    come up; rise; uprise; lift; go up; arise; move up.
    • The fog lifted
    • The smoke arose from the forest fire
    • The mist uprose from the meadows
  5. verb make audible
    lift.
    • He lifted a war whoop
  6. verb cancel officially
    annul; revoke; reverse; countermand; lift; vacate; overturn; repeal; rescind.
    • He revoked the ban on smoking
    • lift an embargo
    • vacate a death sentence
  7. verb make off with belongings of others
    pilfer; filch; pinch; abstract; swipe; sneak; purloin; hook; lift; snarf; cabbage; nobble.
  8. verb raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
    lift; hoist; wind.
    • hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
  9. verb invigorate or heighten
    lift; raise.
    • lift my spirits
    • lift his ego
  10. verb raise in rank or condition
    elevate; lift; raise.
    • The new law lifted many people from poverty
  11. verb take off or away by decreasing
    lift.
    • lift the pressure
  12. verb rise up
    lift; rise; rear.
    • The building rose before them
  13. verb pay off (a mortgage)
    lift.
  14. verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    plagiarize; lift; plagiarise.
  15. verb take illegally
    lift; rustle.
    • rustle cattle
  16. verb fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
    lift; airlift.
    • Food is airlifted into Bosnia
  17. verb take (root crops) out of the ground
    lift.
    • lift potatoes
  18. verb call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
    lift.
  19. verb rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
    lift.
    • The floor is lifting slowly
  20. verb put an end to
    lift; raise.
    • lift a ban
    • raise a siege
  21. verb remove (hair) by scalping
    lift.
  22. verb remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
    lift.
    • lift the tulip bulbs
  23. verb remove from a surface
    lift.
    • the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table
  24. verb perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
    face-lift; lift.
  25. adjective satellite held up in the air
    upraised.
    • stood with arms upraised
    • her upraised flag

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