Elevate

Quick meaning: Elevate is a verb meaning (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Abdulla expressed his surprise by elevating his eyebrows.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• elevates
• elevating
• elevated

Synonyms for elevate

Depending on context, synonyms include lift, raise, exalt, promote, advance, aggrandize.

Antonyms for elevate

Common opposites include drop, lower, demote, abase, debase, defame.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include get up, lift, upgrade, promote, raise, advance.

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