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[ verb ] take and lift upward

Synonyms

pick_up gather_up

Used in print

(Cordwainer Smith, "A Planet Named Shayol,"...)

Though they saw the old-style chemical rockets lift_up from the field beyond B ' dikkat 's cabin , they did not make plans to hide among the frozen crop of transmuted flesh .

Related terms

raise

2
[ verb ] fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Examples

"Music can uplift your spirits"

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

`` So_that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur , and become lifted_up , as if he had no lord , because of the dominion that had been given to him , and the freedom , fall into sin against God his Creator , overstepping his bounds , and take_up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God , a law was given him by God , that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all .

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