Uplift Meaning
/ʌpˈlɪft/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
verbTo raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level., To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience.
Sentence Examples
This music is going to uplift your mood.
Tebboune is trying to uplift the living conditions of the people.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The wonderful news helped to ____ her mood after a long, difficult day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The positive news about the project provided a much-needed ____ to the team's morale earlier this morning today.
Word Origin & History
From up- + lift.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Whether you find it by your power as a man, or because, being near the gods, a god has whispered you. Uplift our State; think upon your fame; your coming brought us luck, be lucky to us still, remember that it is better to rule over men than over a waste place, since neither walled town nor ship is anything if it be empty and no man within it."
— 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
"They recognised that their free-lay properties were just right for premises where there had to be easy access to underfloor cables or where office layouts needed to be readily changed without having to uplift the carpet every time."
— 1986, The Architectural Review, volume 180, page 82:
"At the behest of the London Midland Region, the infrastructure was built with a capability for running at up to 110mph with conventional rolling stock, as well as the raising of speed limits - such as the 60mph over Shap summit uplifted to 80mph."
— 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 62:
"—genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'"
— 2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 79:
"A man who abused a Police Community Support Officer for being transgender has received an uplifted sentence at Mold Magistrates' Court... At Court the prosecutor applied for the sentence for the public order offence to be uplifted to reflect the hate crime aspect. This resulted in the Court imposing a greater penalty."
— 2020 January 29, “Transphobic hate crime results in increased sentence for Mold teenager”, in Crown Prosecution Service, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 30 Jan 2020:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The wonderful news helped to ____ her mood after a long, difficult day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The positive news about the project provided a much-needed ____ to the team's morale earlier this morning today.