LIFT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lift up mean? 

• LIFT UP (verb)
  The verb LIFT UP has 2 senses:

1. take and lift upward

2. fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

  Familiarity information: LIFT UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take and lift upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

gather up; lift up; pick up

Hypernyms (to "lift up" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift

Context example:

Music can uplift your spirits

Hypernyms (to "lift up" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Cause:

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lift up"):

beatify (make blessedly happy)

puff (make proud or conceited)

beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink (fill with sublime emotion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will lift up her
The performance is likely to lift up Sue

 Context examples 

Lift up that end there, damn you! What the hell’s the matter with you?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After which, like one whose imagination was struck with something never seen or heard of before, he would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

While she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy, with a heightened complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"No," she continued, "it is in the face: on the forehead, about the eyes, in the lines of the mouth. Kneel, and lift up your head."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the removal of his alarm did his niece no service: as her unaccountableness was confirmed his displeasure increased; and getting up and walking about the room with a frown, which Fanny could picture to herself, though she dared not lift up her eyes, he shortly afterwards, and in a voice of authority, said, Have you any reason, child, to think ill of Mr. Crawford's temper?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Item, that after sundry japes and jokes the said brother John did lift up the said Mary Sowley and did take, carry, and convey her across a stream, to the infinite relish of the devil and the exceeding detriment of his own soul, which scandalous and wilful falling away was witnessed by three members of our order.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth dared not lift up her eyes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was not able to lift up the roof of my closet, which otherwise I certainly should have done, and sat on the top of it; where I might at least preserve myself some hours longer, than by being shut up (as I may call it) in the hold.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We expected the beach to lift up this way and that, and the rocky walls to swing back and forth like the sides of a ship; and when we braced ourselves, automatically, for these various expected movements, their non-occurrence quite overcame our equilibrium.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No need to warn her not to disarrange her attire: when she was dressed, she sat demurely down in her little chair, taking care previously to lift up the satin skirt for fear she should crease it, and assured me she would not stir thence till I was ready.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)