Lift

Quick meaning: Lift is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, slang) To steal.
2. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
3. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
4. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
5. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
6. (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
7. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.

Example Sentences

You never lift a finger to help me!

The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.

Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

Word Forms

• lifts
• lifting
• lifted

Synonyms for lift

Depending on context, synonyms include air, atmosphere, welkin, ride, elevator, abstract.

Antonyms for lift

Common opposites include fall, lower, descend, let down, come down.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rise, raising, arise, elevator, elevate, get up.

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