1. Take from a lower to a higher position
   "elevate your hands";
   - raise, lift, get up, bring up
    
2. Increase in condition, wealth, quality of life, etc.
   "The new law elevated many people from poverty";
   - lift, raise
    
3. Make more elevated or refined in quality
   "Good art can elevate the human spirit"
    
4. Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
   "I got elevated after many years of hard work";
   - promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs [informal], raise

Derived forms: elevated, elevates, elevating

Type of: alter, assign, change, delegate, depute, designate, displace, modify, move

Encyclopedia: Elevate