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the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs" remove (hair) by scalping put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" move upwards; "lift one''s eyes" pay off (a mortgage) take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" the act of giving temporary assistance one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" take illegally; "rustle cattle" transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" perform cosmetic surgery on someone''s face fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" rise up; "The building rose before them" invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" take without referencing from someone else''s writing or speech; of intellectual property plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift" make off with belongings of others |
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