- raise from a lower to a higher position;
"Raise your hands"
"Lift a load"
- take hold of something and move it to a different location;
"lift the box onto the table"
- move upwards;
"lift one's eyes"
- move upward;
"The fog lifted"
"The smoke arose from the forest fire"
"The mist uprose from the meadows"
- make audible;
"He lifted a war whoop"
- cancel officially;
"He revoked the ban on smoking"
"lift an embargo"
"vacate a death sentence"
- make off with belongings of others
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- invigorate or heighten;
"lift my spirits"
"lift his ego"
- raise in rank or condition;
"The new law lifted many people from poverty"
- take off or away by decreasing;
"lift the pressure"
- rise up;
"The building rose before them"
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- take illegally;
"rustle cattle"
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;
"Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
- take (root crops) out of the ground;
"lift potatoes"
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;
"The floor is lifting slowly"
- put an end to;
"lift a ban"
"raise a siege"
- remove (hair) by scalping
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;
"lift the tulip bulbs"
- remove from a surface;
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
