Meaning

8 senses
  1. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual, or emotional level.

    поднима́ть вверхpodnimátʹ vverx, поднима́тьpodnimátʹ, ободрятьobodrjatʹ

    піднімати вгоруpidnimaty vhoru

  2. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual, or emotional level.

    To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience.

  3. To aggravate; to increase.

  4. To be accepted for carriage on a flight.

  5. (New Zealand)To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.

  6. (Australia, transitive)To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.

  7. To backport.

  8. (Northern England)To pick up; take possession of.

More definitions
  • lift up or elevate
  • lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
  • fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Examples

25 sentences
  1. I found it uplifting.

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  2. I feel so uplifted.

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  3. Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

    Марно сподіватися на відсторонену рефлексію коли до горлянки ножа приставили.

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  4. Adding up numbers is very uplifting.

    ruПрибавление чисел очень поднимает настроение.

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  5. Work that uplifts others creates change.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to raise something or someone to a higher level:
Русский
By meaning 1
to raise something or someone to a higher level:

Origin

From up- + lift.

From up- + lift.

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Forms

uplifts, uplifting, uplifted, uplifted
Base formuplift · to uplift
3rd person singularuplifts
Present participleuplifting
Past simpleuplifted
Past participleuplifted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyuplift
he, she, ituplifts

Past simpleLesson

all personsuplifted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave uplifted
he, she, ithas uplifted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill uplift

Synonyms

45 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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