lifting

(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position. Synonyms: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up. Examples: "Raise your hands." "Lift a load."

(verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location. Synonyms: lift. Example: "Lift the box onto the table."

(verb) move upwards. Synonyms: lift, raise. Example: "Lift one's eyes."

(verb) move upward. Synonyms: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise. Examples: "The fog lifted." "The smoke arose from the forest fire." "The mist uprose from the meadows."

(verb) make audible. Synonyms: lift. Example: "He lifted a war whoop."

(verb) cancel officially. Synonyms: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate. Examples: "He revoked the ban on smoking." "Lift an embargo." "Vacate a death sentence."

(verb) make off with belongings of others. Synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift.

(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. Synonyms: hoist, lift, wind. Example: "Hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car."

(verb) invigorate or heighten. Synonyms: raise, lift. Examples: "Lift my spirits." "Lift his ego."

(verb) raise in rank or condition. Synonyms: lift, raise, elevate. Example: "The new law lifted many people from poverty."

(verb) take off or away by decreasing. Synonyms: lift. Example: "Lift the pressure."

(verb) rise up. Synonyms: rise, lift, rear. Example: "The building rose before them."

(verb) pay off (a mortgage). Synonyms: lift.

(verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property. Synonyms: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift.

(verb) take illegally. Synonyms: rustle, lift. Example: "Rustle cattle."

(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means. Synonyms: airlift, lift. Example: "Food is airlifted into bosnia."

(verb) take (root crops) out of the ground. Synonyms: lift. Example: "Lift potatoes."

(verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs. Synonyms: lift.

(verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture. Synonyms: lift. Example: "The floor is lifting slowly."

(verb) put an end to. Synonyms: lift, raise. Examples: "Lift a ban." "Raise a siege."

(verb) remove (hair) by scalping. Synonyms: lift.

(verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery. Synonyms: lift. Example: "Lift the tulip bulbs."

(verb) remove from a surface. Synonyms: lift. Example: "The detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table."

(verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face. Synonyms: face-lift, lift.