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Elevate

//ˈɛləveɪt//

Definitions

verbelevates · elevating · elevated

1
To raise (something) to a higher position.
The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
Similar
lift raise
Opposite
drop lower
2
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,
Similar
exalt promote
Opposite
demote
3
To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
Similar
ennoble exalt honor

adjmore elevate · most elevate

1
Elevated, raised aloft.
1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6, The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,

Word Origin

From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical eleva...

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