To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
To arrest (a person).
To steal.
to cause to move upwards.
To lift weights; to weight-lift.
To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
To raise or rise.
To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
A rise; a degree of elevation.
A thief.
The amount or weight to be lifted.
The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
An act of lifting or raising.
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
Air.
Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
An improvement in mood.
The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
A liftgate.
To make less elevated
To decrease in value, amount, etc.
To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
To bring down; to humble
(lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
To reduce the height of
To depress as to direction
to pull down
To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
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