1. Held up in the air
   - upraised

1. Raise from a lower to a higher position
   "Lift a load"
   - raise, elevate, get up, bring up 
2. Take hold of something and move it to a different location
   "lift the box onto the table" 
3. Move upwards
   "lift one's eyes"
   - raise 
4. Move upward
   "The fog lifted"
   - rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise 
5. Make audible
   "He lifted a war whoop" 
6. Cancel officially
   "lift an embargo"
   - revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate 
7. Make off with belongings of others
   - pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble [Brit], nick [Brit] 
8. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   - hoist, wind 
9. Invigorate or heighten
   "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
   - raise 
10. Raise in rank or condition
    "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
    - raise, elevate 
11. Take off or away by decreasing
    "lift the pressure" 
12. Rise up
    - rise, rear 
13. Pay off (a mortgage) 
14. Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    - plagiarize, plagiarise [Brit] 
15. Take illegally
    - rustle 
16. Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
    - airlift 
17. Take (root crops) out of the ground
    "lift potatoes" 
18. Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs 
19. Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
    "The floor is lifting slowly" 
20. Put an end to
    "lift a ban"
    - raise 
21. Remove (hair) by scalping 
22. Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
    "lift the tulip bulbs" 
23. Remove from a surface
    "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" 
24. Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
    - face-lift

See also: lift up, lifter, raised

Type of: alter, ameliorate, amend, appear, better, buckle, call, cancel, change, dig, dig out, displace, emit, end, fly, go, heave, improve, let loose, let out, liquidate, locomote, look, meliorate, modify, move, operate, operate on, pay off, remove, scalp, seem, send for, steal, strike down, take, take away, terminate, travel, utter, warp, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Lift

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