Elevate

/ˈɛləveɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
3. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
4. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
5. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
6. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
7. (transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)
8. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

Example Sentences

The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.

1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 25, 12 June, 1750, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 216, We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?

The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder

She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]

Abdulla expressed his surprise by elevating his eyebrows.

Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,

Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.

[…] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.

Synonyms for elevate

Antonyms for elevate

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Word Forms

• elevates
• elevating
• elevated
• more elevate
• most elevate

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