lift
- sense 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
- raise lift elevate get_up bring_up
- sense 2: take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"
- lift
- sense 3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
- lift raise
- sense 4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- rise lift arise move_up go_up come_up uprise
- sense 5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
- lift
- utter emit let_out let_loose
- sense 6: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- revoke annul lift countermand reverse repeal overturn rescind vacate
- sense 7: make off with belongings of others
- pilfer cabbage purloin pinch abstract snarf swipe hook sneak filch nobble lift
- sense 8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- hoist lift wind
- raise lift elevate get_up bring_up
- sense 9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
- raise lift
- better improve amend ameliorate meliorate
- sense 10: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
- lift raise elevate
- sense 11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
- lift
- remove take take_away withdraw
- sense 12: rise up; "The building rose before them"
- rise lift rear
- sense 13: pay off; as of mortgages
- lift
- liquidate pay_off
- pay_up ante_up pay
- pay
- settle
- arrange fix_up
- agree hold concur concord
- sense 14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- plagiarize plagiarise lift
- sense 15: take illegally, as of cattle
- rustle lift
- sense 16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
- airlift lift
- sense 17: take out of the ground, of root crops; "lift potatoes"
- lift
- dig dig_out
- hollow hollow_out core_out
- sense 18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- lift
- call send_for
- order tell enjoin say
- request
- ask
- request bespeak call_for quest
- communicate pass_on pass put_across
- convey transmit communicate
- sense 19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"
- lift
- sense 20: put an end to, as of a siege or a blockade; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
- lift raise
- sense 21: remove by scalping, of hair
- lift
- scalp
- remove take take_away withdraw
- sense 22: remove from a seedbed or form a nursery, as of bulbs
- lift
- remove take take_away withdraw
- sense 23: remove from a surface, of fingerprints
- lift
- remove take take_away withdraw
- sense 24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- face-lift lift