Definition of lift

"lift" in the noun sense

1. lift

the act of giving temporary assistance

2. aerodynamic lift, lift

the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

3. elevation, lift, raising

the event of something being raised upward

"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"

"a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"

4. lift, rise

a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

5. ski tow, ski lift, lift

a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

6. lift

a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

7. lift

one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

8. elevator, lift

lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building

9. face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck

plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised

"some actresses have more than one face lift"

10. airlift, lift

transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

11. lift

a ride in a car

"he gave me a lift home"

12. lift, raise, heave

the act of raising something

"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"

"fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

"lift" in the verb sense

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

raise from a lower to a higher position

"Raise your hands"

"Lift a load"

2. lift

take hold of something and move it to a different location

"lift the box onto the table"

3. lift, raise

move upwards

"lift one's eyes"

4. rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise

move upward

"The fog lifted"

"The smoke arose from the forest fire"

"The mist uprose from the meadows"

5. lift

make audible

"He lifted a war whoop"

6. revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate

cancel officially

"He revoked the ban on smoking"

"lift an embargo"

"vacate a death sentence"

7. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift

make off with belongings of others

8. hoist, lift, wind

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

9. raise, lift

invigorate or heighten

"lift my spirits"

"lift his ego"

10. lift, raise, elevate

raise in rank or condition

"The new law lifted many people from poverty"

11. lift

take off or away by decreasing

"lift the pressure"

12. rise, lift, rear

rise up

"The building rose before them"

13. lift

pay off (a mortgage)

14. plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech of intellectual property

15. rustle, lift

take illegally

"rustle cattle"

16. airlift, lift

fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

"Food is airlifted into Bosnia"

17. lift

take (root crops) out of the ground

"lift potatoes"

18. lift

call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

19. lift

rise upward, as from pressure or moisture

"The floor is lifting slowly"

20. lift, raise

put an end to

"lift a ban"

"raise a siege"

21. lift

remove (hair) by scalping

22. lift

remove from a seedbed or from a nursery

"lift the tulip bulbs"

23. lift

remove from a surface

"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

24. face-lift, lift

perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

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Quotations for lift

Lift up your hearts. [ Law ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. [ Bailey ]

He speaks as if every word would lift a dish. [ Proverb ]

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. [ George MacDonald ]

The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God. [ Tiedge ]

New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Where musing Solitude might love to lift her soul above this sphere of earthliness. [ Shelley ]

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. [ Burke ]

Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the minds eye to read its oracles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness. [ Richter ]

One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather; as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. [ Hugo Amot ]

Noble blood! bah! What blood is more noble or so pure as that of the lion? And yet he is only a brute. It is merit, education and virtue, not blood, that lift men above the level of the brutes. [ Michael le Faucheur ]

Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of lift

2 letter words in lift (2 words)

3 letter words in lift (2 words)

4 letter words in lift (Anagrams) (2 words)

lift + 1 blank (7 words)

Word Growth involving lift

Shorter words in lift

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Longer words containing lift

airlift airlifted

airlift airlifting

airlift airlifts chairlifts

airlift airlifts stairlifts

airlift chairlift chairlifts

airlift stairlift stairlifts

backlift backlifts

boatlift boatlifted

boatlift boatlifting

boatlift boatlifts

deadlift deadlifted

deadlift deadlifter deadlifters

deadlift deadlifting

deadlift deadlifts

eyelift eyelifts

facelift facelifted

facelift facelifts

forelift forelifted

forelift forelifting

forelift forelifts

forklift forklifted

forklift forklifter forklifters

forklift forklifting

forklift forklifts

haylift haylifts

liftback liftbacks

lifted airlifted

lifted boatlifted

lifted deadlifted

lifted facelifted

lifted forelifted

lifted forklifted

lifted powerlifted

lifted shoplifted

lifted uplifted

lifted weightlifted

lifter deadlifter deadlifters

lifter forklifter forklifters

lifter lifters deadlifters

lifter lifters forklifters

lifter lifters powerlifters

lifter lifters shoplifters

lifter lifters uplifters

lifter lifters weightlifters

lifter powerlifter powerlifters

lifter shoplifter shoplifters

lifter uplifter uplifters

lifter weightlifter weightlifters

liftgate liftgates

lifting airlifting

lifting boatlifting

lifting deadlifting

lifting forelifting

lifting forklifting

lifting powerlifting

lifting shoplifting shopliftings

lifting uplifting unuplifting

lifting uplifting upliftingly

lifting uplifting upliftings

lifting weightlifting

liftoff liftoffs

lifts airlifts chairlifts

lifts airlifts stairlifts

lifts backlifts

lifts boatlifts

lifts booklifts

lifts deadlifts

lifts eyelifts

lifts facelifts

lifts forelifts

lifts forklifts

lifts haylifts

lifts powerlifts

lifts shoplifts

lifts uplifts

lifts weightlifts

powerlift powerlifted

powerlift powerlifter powerlifters

powerlift powerlifting

powerlift powerlifts

shoplift shoplifted

shoplift shoplifter shoplifters

shoplift shoplifting shopliftings

shoplift shoplifts

underlift

uplift uplifted

uplift uplifter uplifters

uplift uplifting unuplifting

uplift uplifting upliftingly

uplift uplifting upliftings

uplift upliftment

uplift uplifts

weightlift weightlifted

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