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Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lift

24 senses of lift

Sense 1
raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")
          Phrasal Verb-> lift up#1

Sense 2
lift -- (take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 3
lift, raise -- (move upwards; "lift one's eyes")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 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")
       => travel, go, move, locomote -- (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast")

Sense 5
lift -- (make audible; "He lifted a war whoop")
       => utter, emit, let out, let loose -- (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand")

Sense 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")
       => cancel, strike down -- (declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law")

Sense 7
pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others)
       => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation")

Sense 8
hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car")
       => raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load")

Sense 9
raise, lift -- (invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego")
       => better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate -- (to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes")

Sense 10
lift, raise, elevate -- (raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 11
lift -- (take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure")
       => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")

Sense 12
rise, lift, rear -- (rise up; "The building rose before them")
       => look, appear, seem -- (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time")

Sense 13
lift -- (pay off (a mortgage))
       => liquidate, pay off -- (eliminate by paying off (debts))

Sense 14
plagiarize, plagiarise, lift -- (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)
       => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation")

Sense 15
rustle, lift -- (take illegally; "rustle cattle")
       => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation")

Sense 16
airlift, lift -- (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia")
       => fly -- (transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America")

Sense 17
lift -- (take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes")
       => dig, dig out -- (create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel")

Sense 18
lift -- (call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs)
       => call, send for -- (order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!")

Sense 19
lift -- (rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly")
       => heave, buckle, warp -- (bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave")

Sense 20
lift, raise -- (put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege")
       => end, terminate -- (bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I")

Sense 21
lift -- (remove (hair) by scalping)
       => scalp -- (remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped")

Sense 22
lift -- (remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs")
       => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")

Sense 23
lift -- (remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table")
       => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")

Sense 24
face-lift, lift -- (perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face)
       => operate on, operate -- (perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life")

Antonyms of adj lifted

1 sense of lifted

Sense 1
upraised, lifted -- (held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag")

INDIRECT (VIA raised) -> lowered -- (below the surround or below the normal position; "with lowered eyes")

Similarity of adj lifted

1 sense of lifted

Sense 1
upraised, lifted -- (held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag")
       => raised (vs. lowered) -- (located or moved above the surround or above the normal position; "a raised design"; "raised eyebrows")


thesaurus -Overview of thesaurus verb -Hypernyms -Hyponyms & Hyponym Tree -Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency) -Cause to -Derived Forms -Domain -Familiarity & Polysemy Count -Verb Frames -Coordinate Terms (sisters) -Synonyms (grouped by similarity of meaning) -List of Compound Words -Overview of Senses adj -Antonyms -Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency) -Familiarity & Polysemy Count -List of Compound Words -Overview of Senses	Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lift 24 senses of lift Sense 1 raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load") => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant") Phrasal Verb-> lift up#1 Sense 2 lift -- (take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table") => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant") Sense 3 lift, raise -- (move upwards; "lift one's eyes") => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant") Sense 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") => travel, go, move, locomote -- (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast") Sense 5 lift -- (make audible; "He lifted a war whoop") => utter, emit, let out, let loose -- (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand") Sense 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") => cancel, strike down -- (declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law") Sense 7 pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others) => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation") Sense 8 hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car") => raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load") Sense 9 raise, lift -- (invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego") => better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate -- (to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes") Sense 10 lift, raise, elevate -- (raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty") => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue") Sense 11 lift -- (take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure") => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment") Sense 12 rise, lift, rear -- (rise up; "The building rose before them") => look, appear, seem -- (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time") Sense 13 lift -- (pay off (a mortgage)) => liquidate, pay off -- (eliminate by paying off (debts)) Sense 14 plagiarize, plagiarise, lift -- (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property) => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation") Sense 15 rustle, lift -- (take illegally; "rustle cattle") => steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation") Sense 16 airlift, lift -- (fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia") => fly -- (transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America") Sense 17 lift -- (take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes") => dig, dig out -- (create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel") Sense 18 lift -- (call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs) => call, send for -- (order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!") Sense 19 lift -- (rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly") => heave, buckle, warp -- (bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave") Sense 20 lift, raise -- (put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege") => end, terminate -- (bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I") Sense 21 lift -- (remove (hair) by scalping) => scalp -- (remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped") Sense 22 lift -- (remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs") => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment") Sense 23 lift -- (remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table") => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment") Sense 24 face-lift, lift -- (perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face) => operate on, operate -- (perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life") Antonyms of adj lifted 1 sense of lifted Sense 1 upraised, lifted -- (held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag") INDIRECT (VIA raised) -> lowered -- (below the surround or below the normal position; "with lowered eyes") Similarity of adj lifted 1 sense of lifted Sense 1 upraised, lifted -- (held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag") => raised (vs. lowered) -- (located or moved above the surround or above the normal position; "a raised design"; "raised eyebrows")
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