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LIFTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Held up in the air
Example:
her upraised flag
Synonyms:
lifted; upraised
Classified under:
Similar:
raised (located or moved above the surround or above the normal position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lift
Context examples:
His black moustache lifted and a white fang twinkled in a sneer.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You can emerge from rehab or a series of meetings with your therapist feeling new, as if a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
With swift, vigorous propulsion of hands and feet, he lifted his shoulders and half his chest out of water.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He said this as he helped me to alight from the carriage, and while he afterwards lifted out Adele, I entered the house, and made good my retreat upstairs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Marianne lifted up her eyes in astonishment, and Elinor conjectured that she might as well have held her tongue.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In an instant Alleyne and John were on foot, and had lifted her forth all in a shake with fear, but little the worse for her mischance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and glanced my eye over it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 9:54 a.m. PST, carrying 10 communications satellites to be placed in orbit before returning to Earth.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
