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LIFT

Definition:

1. [noun] the act of giving temporary assistance
   
   
2. [noun] the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
   Synonyms: aerodynamic
   
   
3. [noun] the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
   Synonyms: elevation, raising
   
   
4. [noun] a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
   Synonyms: rise
   
   
5. [noun] a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
   Synonyms: ski tow, ski
   
   
6. [noun] a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
   
   
7. [noun] one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
   
   
8. [noun] lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
   Synonyms: elevator
   
   
9. [noun] plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
   Synonyms: face faceface ing, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck
   
   
10. [noun] transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
    Synonyms: air
    
    
11. [noun] a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
    
    
12. [noun] the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
    Synonyms: raise, heave
    
    
13. [verb] raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
    Synonyms: raise, elevate, get up, bring up
    
    
14. [verb] take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"
    
    
15. [verb] move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
    Synonyms: raise
    
    
16. [verb] move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
    Synonyms: rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
    
    
17. [verb] make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
    
    
18. [verb] annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
    Synonyms: revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
    
    
19. [verb] make off with belongings of others
    Synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble
    
    
20. [verb] raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
    Synonyms: hoist, wind
    
    
21. [verb] invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
    Synonyms: raise
    
    
22. [verb] raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
    Synonyms: raise, elevate
    
    
23. [verb] take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
    
    
24. [verb] rise up; "The building rose before them"
    Synonyms: rise, rear
    
    
25. [verb] pay off (a mortgage)
    
    
26. [verb] take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    Synonyms: plagiarize, plagiarise
    
    
27. [verb] take illegally; "rustle cattle"
    Synonyms: rustle
    
    
28. [verb] fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
    Synonyms: air
    
    
29. [verb] take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"
    
    
30. [verb] call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
    
    
31. [verb] rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"
    
    
32. [verb] put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
    Synonyms: raise
    
    
33. [verb] remove (hair) by scalping
    
    
34. [verb] remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"
    
    
35. [verb] remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
    
    
36. [verb] perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
    Synonyms: face-
    
    

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Related Words:

• get up
• jack, jack up
• shoulder
• kick up
• hoist, lift, wind
• trice, trice up
• hoist, run up
• hoist
• pump
• levitate
• underlay
• skid
• pinnacle
• chin, chin up
• raise, leaven, prove
• heighten
• hike, hike up, boost
• pick up, lift up, gather up
• rear, erect
• heave, heave up, heft, heft up
• pitchfork, fork
• scend, surge
• climb, climb up, mount, go up
• soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom
• go up
• rocket, skyrocket
• uplift
• chandelle
• steam
• rise, come up, uprise, ascend
• renege, renege on, renegue on, go back on
• trice, trice up
• dignify
• exalt
• loom, tower, predominate, hulk
• crib
• ground effect
• chairlift, chair lift
• rope tow
• surface lift
• top lift
• dumbwaiter, food elevator
• freight elevator, service elevator
• paternoster
• nose job, rhinoplasty
• Berlin airlift

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