'Uplift' definitions:
Definition of 'uplift'
(from WordNet)
noun
(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust]
noun
A brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts
verb
Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down]
verb
Lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
verb
Lift up or elevate
Definition of 'Uplift'
From: GCIDE
- Uplift \Up*lift"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Uplifting.] To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Uplift'
From: GCIDE
- Uplift \Up"lift`\, n. (Geol.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uplift'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abruptness,
- acclivity,
- acculturate,
- advance,
- advancement,
- aggrandize,
- ameliorate,
- amelioration,
- amend,
- amendment,
- anabasis,
- apotheose,
- apotheosis,
- apotheosize,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- assumption,
- bear up,
- beatification,
- beatify,
- better,
- bettering,
- betterment,
- boost,
- bring forward,
- buoy,
- buoy up,
- canonization,
- canonize,
- cast up,
- civilize,
- clamber,
- climb,
- climbing,
- crown,
- deification,
- deify,
- edify,
- educate,
- elate,
- elevate,
- elevation,
- emend,
- enhance,
- enhancement,
- enlighten,
- ennoble,
- enrich,
- enrichment,
- enshrine,
- enshrinement,
- enthrone,
- erect,
- erection,
- escalade,
- escalate,
- escalation,
- eugenics,
- euthenics,
- exalt,
- exaltation,
- fatten,
- favor,
- float,
- float high,
- flush,
- forward,
- foster,
- fountain,
- furtherance,
- glamorize,
- glorify,
- go straight,
- Great Leap Forward,
- gush,
- gyring up,
- headway,
- heave,
- heft,
- height,
- heighten,
- heist,
- hike,
- hoick,
- hoist,
- hold up,
- illume,
- illumine,
- immortalize,
- improve,
- improve upon,
- improvement,
- increase,
- irradiate,
- jerk up,
- jet,
- jump,
- knock up,
- lard,
- leap,
- levitate,
- levitation,
- lift,
- lift up,
- lifting,
- lionize,
- lob,
- loft,
- magnify,
- make an improvement,
- make legendary,
- meliorate,
- melioration,
- mend,
- mending,
- mount,
- mounting,
- nurture,
- perk up,
- pick up,
- pickup,
- pitch,
- precipitousness,
- preferment,
- progress,
- progression,
- promote,
- promotion,
- raise,
- raise aloft,
- raise up,
- raising,
- rear,
- rear aloft,
- rear up,
- rearing,
- recovery,
- refine upon,
- reform,
- restoration,
- revival,
- ride high,
- rise,
- rising,
- rising ground,
- rocketing up,
- saint,
- saltation,
- sanctify,
- set up,
- shooting up,
- sky,
- soaring,
- socialize,
- spout,
- spring,
- spurt,
- stand upright,
- steepness,
- stick up,
- straighten out,
- surge,
- sursum corda,
- sustain,
- take up,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- throne,
- throw up,
- transfigure,
- transform,
- up,
- upbear,
- upbeat,
- upbuoy,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upend,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrowth,
- upheaval,
- upheave,
- uphill,
- uphoist,
- uphold,
- upleap,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- upraise,
- uprear,
- uprearing,
- upright,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- uptrend,
- upward mobility,
- vault,
- verticalness,
- waft,
- zooming