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LIFT UP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Example:

Music can uplift your spirits

Synonyms:

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "lift up" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Cause:

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lift up"):

beatify (make blessedly happy)

puff (make proud or conceited)

beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink (fill with sublime emotion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will lift up her

The performance is likely to lift up Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take and lift upward

Synonyms:

gather up; lift up; pick up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "lift up" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the servant was approaching the door.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)