Elevate: Definition and part of speech

Elevate

  1. a. Elevated; raised aloft.
  2. v. t. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.
  3. v. t. To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.
  4. v. t. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.
  5. v. t. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.
  6. v. t. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; — said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.
  7. v. t. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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