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elevate (adjective)archaic - elevated
transitive verb
1.
to lift up or make higher - raise elevate a patient's leg exercises that elevate the heart rate
2.
to raise in rank or status - was elevated to chairman
3.
to improve morally, intellectually, or culturally - great books that both entertain and elevate their readers
4.
intransitive verb
to raise the spirits of - elate to become - elevated rise his voice elevated to a shout lift
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
elevate (verb)1.
to fill with great joy
SYNONYMS:
elevate, enrapture, exhilarate, intoxicate, transportRELATED WORDS:
commove, excite, inspire, stimulate, uplift; content, delight, gladden, gratify, please, rejoice, satisfy, warmNEAR ANTONYMS:
demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit; distress, oppress, sadden2.
to move from a lower to a higher place or position
SYNONYMS:
boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, take up, up, uphold, uplift, upraiseRELATED WORDS:
ascend, mount, rise; rear, upendNEAR ANTONYMS:
descend, dip, fall, pitch, plunge, slip; bear, depress, press, push; sink, submerge3.
to move higher in rank or position
SYNONYMS:
advance, elevate, raise, upgradeRELATED WORDS:
forward, further; aggrandize, boost, heighten, improve, lift, uplift; commission, ennoble, knight; acclaim, applaud, celebrate, cite, commend, compliment, congratulate, decorate; eulogize, exalt, extol ( extoll), glorify, hail, honor, laud, praise, saluteNEAR ANTONYMS:
depose, dethrone, dismiss, expel, impeach, oust, overthrow, remove, unmake, unseat; demean, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, mortify, shame, take down; censure, condemn, damn, denounce, reprobate4.
to assign a high status or value to
SYNONYMS:
aggrandize, canonize, deify, dignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, ensky, enthrone, glorify, magnifyRELATED WORDS:
boost, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, uplift; heighten, intensify; idealize, romanticize, sanitize, sugarcoat; acclaim, extol ( extoll), honor, laud, praiseNEAR ANTONYMS:
belittle, decry, depreciate, detract, disparage, minimize
Elevate (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) +
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