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(noun) the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
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Synonyms: elevation, heave, raise |
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Related Words: actuation, propulsion |
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(verb) remove from a surface, of fingerprints |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(verb) take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(verb) remove from a seedbed or form a nursery, as of bulbs |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(verb) remove by scalping, of hair |
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Related Words: scalp |
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(noun) a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" |
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Related Words: drive, ride |
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(verb) put an end to, as of a siege or a blockade; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" |
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Synonyms: raise |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" |
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Related Words: buckle, heave, warp |
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(verb) raise in rank or condition: "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
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Synonyms: elevate, raise |
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Related Words: alter, change, exalt |
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(verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs |
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Related Words: call, send for |
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(verb) make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" |
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Related Words: emit, let loose, let out, utter |
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(noun) the act of giving temporary assistance |
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Related Words: aid, assist, assistance, help, helping |
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(verb) take out of the ground, of root crops; "lift potatoes" |
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Related Words: dig, dig out |
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(verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" |
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Related Words: displace, fork, heave, heave up, heft, heft up, move, pitchfork |
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(verb) move upwards; "lift one's eyes" |
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Synonyms: raise |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) pay off; as of mortgages |
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Related Words: liquidate, pay off |
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(noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground |
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Synonyms: rise |
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Related Words: moving ridge, wave |
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(verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face |
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Synonyms: face-lift |
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Related Words: operate, operate on |
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(verb) invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits", "lift his ego" |
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Synonyms: raise |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" |
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Synonyms: airlift |
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Related Words: fly |
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(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" |
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Synonyms: hoist, wind |
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Related Words: bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise, trice, trice up |
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(verb) move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire" |
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Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise |
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Related Words: chandelle, climb, climb up, come up, go, go up, locomote, mount, move, rise, rocket, skyrocket, soar, soar up, soar upwards, steam, surge, travel, uplift, zoom |
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(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
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Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
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Related Words: boost, chin, chin up, displace, erect, gather up, get up, heighten, hike, hike up, hoist, jack, jack up, kick up, leaven, lift, lift up, move, pick up, pinnacle, prove, pump, raise, rear, run up, shoulder, skid, trice, trice up, wind |
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(verb) take illegally, as of cattle |
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Synonyms: rustle |
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Related Words: steal |
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(verb) rise up; "The building rose before them" |
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Synonyms: rear, rise |
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Related Words: appear, hulk, look, loom, seem, tower |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: elevator |
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Related Words: dumbwaiter, food elevator, freight elevator, lifting device, paternoster, service elevator |
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(noun) the event of something being raised |
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Synonyms: elevation, raising |
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Related Words: ascension, ascent, rise, rising |
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(verb) annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo" |
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Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke |
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Related Words: cancel, go back on, renege, renege on, renegue on |
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(verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property |
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Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
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Related Words: crib, steal |
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(noun) carries skiers up a hill |
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Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow |
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Related Words: T-bar, chair lift, chairlift, conveyance, rope tow, transport |
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(verb) make off with belongings of others |
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Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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Related Words: steal |
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