Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
2. (law, of a penalty) To aggravate; to increase.
3. (aviation, travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
4. (New Zealand) To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
5. (law, Australia, transitive) To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.
6. (software engineering) To backport.
7. (Northern England) To pick up; take possession of.
8. The act or result of uplifting (in various senses).

Example Sentences

Whether you find it by your power as a man, or because, being near the gods, a god has whispered you. Uplift our State; think upon your fame; your coming brought us luck, be lucky to us still, remember that it is better to rule over men than over a waste place, since neither walled town nor ship is anything if it be empty and no man within it.

They recognised that their free-lay properties were just right for premises where there had to be easy access to underfloor cables or where office layouts needed to be readily changed without having to uplift the carpet every time.

At the behest of the London Midland Region, the infrastructure was built with a capability for running at up to 110mph with conventional rolling stock, as well as the raising of speed limits - such as the 60mph over Shap summit uplifted to 80mph.

A man who abused a Police Community Support Officer for being transgender has received an uplifted sentence at Mold Magistrates' Court... At Court the prosecutor applied for the sentence for the public order offence to be uplifted to reflect the hate crime aspect. This resulted in the Court imposing a greater penalty.

In an affidavit supporting an application for a court order to uplift the child, a social worker said there were ongoing family violence issues between the baby's mother and father.

In a Post by Northumbria Police:Sharp eyes on patrol! One of our eagle-eyed officers spotted a vehicle driving erratically in Lemington. The driver made off on foot, leaving the car behind - which has now been uplifted for having no insurance.

The EMR Regional timetable improvements also include a significant uplift in Sunday services.

This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line.

Word Forms

• uplifts
• uplifting
• uplifted

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Use uplift when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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