Definitions for lifted



Overview of verb lift

The verb lift has 24 senses? (first 11 from tagged texts)
1. (31) raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up

(raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load")

2. (10) lift

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

3. (2) lift, raise

(move upwards; "lift one's eyes")

4. (2) 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")

5. (2) lift

(make audible; "He lifted a war whoop")

6. (2) revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate

(cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence")

7. (1) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift

(make off with belongings of others)

8. (1) hoist, lift, wind

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

9. (1) raise, lift

(invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego")

10. (1) lift, raise, elevate

(raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty")

11. (1) lift

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

12. rise, lift, rear

(rise up; "The building rose before them")

13. lift

(pay off (a mortgage))

14. plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

(take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)

15. rustle, lift

(take illegally; "rustle cattle")

16. airlift, lift

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

17. lift

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

18. lift

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

19. lift

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

20. lift, raise

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

21. lift

(remove (hair) by scalping)

22. lift

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

23. lift

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

24. face-lift, lift

(perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face)


Overview of adj lifted

The adj lifted has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) upraised, lifted

(held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag")

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