Definition of Lifted
Adjective: lifted lif-tid
- Held up in the air
"stood with arms lifted";
- upraised
- Take from a lower to a higher position
"Lift a load";
- raise, elevate, get up, bring up
- Take hold of something and move it to a different location
"lift the box onto the table"
- Cause to move upwards
"lift one's eyes";
- raise
- Move upward
"The fog lifted";
- rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
- Make audible
"He lifted a war whoop"
- Cancel officially
"lift an embargo";
- revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
- Make off with belongings of others
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch [informal], nobble [Brit], snatch, whip [Brit], nick [Brit, informal]
- Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"lift the bicycle onto the roof of the car";
- hoist, wind[2]
- Invigorate or heighten
"lift his ego"; "lift my spirits";
- raise
- Increase in condition, wealth, quality of life, etc.
"The new law lifted many people from poverty";
- raise, elevate
- Take off or away by decreasing
"lift the pressure"
- Become or appear high or tall
"The building lifted before them";
- rise, rear
- Pay off (a mortgage)
- (crime) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
"Technology can be used to cheat or lift";
- plagiarize, plagiarise [Brit]
- (crime) take illegally
"lift cattle";
- rustle
- Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
"Food is lifted into Bosnia";
- airlift
- Take (root crops) out of the ground
"lift potatoes"
- Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
"The floor is lifting slowly"
- Put an end to
"lift a ban";
- raise
- Remove (hair) by scalping
- Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
"lift the tulip bulbs"
- Remove from a surface
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
- Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- face-lift
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