Definition of elevating

"elevating" in the verb sense

1. promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate

give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

"John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"

"Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"

"I got promoted after many years of hard work"

2. raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up

raise from a lower to a higher position

"Raise your hands"

"Lift a load"

3. lift, raise, elevate

raise in rank or condition

"The new law lifted many people from poverty"

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Quotations for elevating

Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God. [ Daniel Webster ]

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. [ Alexander Walker ]

We believe that the dress that shows taste and sentiment is elevating to the home, and is one of the most feminine means of beautifying the world. [ Miss Oakey ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]

elevating in Scrabble®

The word elevating is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters elevating:

ELEVATING
(153)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (14 words)

elating, elative, elegant, gelatin, genital, gentile, leaving, lineage, lineate, tagline, vegetal, veinlet, vinelet, vintage

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word elevating

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In elevating

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elevating in Words With Friends™

The word elevating is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters elevating:

ELEVATING
(261)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (14 words)

elating, elative, elegant, gelatin, genital, gentile, leaving, lineage, lineate, tagline, vegetal, veinlet, vinelet, vintage

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word elevating

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In elevating

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Words containing the sequence elevating

Words that start with elevating (1 word)

Words with elevating in them (1 word)

Words that end with elevating (3 words)

Word Growth involving elevating

Shorter words in elevating

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Longer words containing elevating

overelevating

reelevating