uplift

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: up=lift

CIDE DICTIONARY

uplift, v. t. 

 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."  [1913 Webster]

uplift, n. 

 A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

uplift, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 raise; lift up.
2 elevate or stimulate morally or spiritually.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of being raised.
2 Geol. the raising of part of the earth's surface.
3 colloq. a morally or spiritually elevating influence.
4 support for the bust etc. from a garment.

Derivative

uplifter n. uplifting adj. (esp. in sense 2 of v.).

THESAURUS

uplift

Great Leap Forward, 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, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

uplift

Elevation

VB heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect, set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up, rear, hoist, heave, uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave, buoy, weigh mount, give a lift, exalt, sublimate, place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal, escalate 102, take up, drag up, fish up, dredge, stand up, rise up, get up, jump up, spring to one's feet, hold oneself, hold one's head up, drawn oneself up to his full height.