Overview of verb lift

The verb lift has 24 senses

• raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load")


• lift -- (take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table")


• lift, raise -- (move upwards; "lift one's eyes")


• rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise -- (move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows")


• lift -- (make audible; "He lifted a war whoop")


• revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate -- (cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence")


• pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others)


• hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car")


• raise, lift -- (invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego")


• lift, raise, elevate -- (raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty")


• lift -- (take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure")


• rise, lift, rear -- (rise up; "The building rose before them")


• lift -- (pay off (a mortgage))


• plagiarize, plagiarise, lift -- (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)


• rustle, lift -- (take illegally; "rustle cattle")


• airlift, lift -- (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia")


• lift -- (take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes")


• lift -- (call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs)


• lift -- (rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly")


• lift, raise -- (put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege")


• lift -- (remove (hair) by scalping)


• lift -- (remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs")


• lift -- (remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table")


• face-lift, lift -- (perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face)

Overview of adj lifted

The adj lifted has 1 sense

• upraised, lifted -- (held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag")