1. Held up in the air
   "stood with arms lifted";
   - upraised

1. Take from a lower to a higher position
   "Lift a load";
   - raise, elevate, get up, bring up
    
2. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   "lift the bicycle onto the roof of the car";
   - hoist, wind[2]
    
3. Take hold of something and move it to a different location
   "lift the box onto the table"
    
4. Cause to move upwards
   "lift one's eyes";
   - raise
    
5. Move upward
   "The fog lifted";
   - rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise [archaic, literary]
    
6. Increase in condition, wealth, quality of life, etc.
   "The new law lifted many people from poverty";
   - raise, elevate
    
7. Become or appear high or tall
   "The mountains lifted into the clouds";
   - rise, rear
    
8. Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
   "The floor is lifting slowly"
    
9. [informal] Take by theft
   "He was going to lift the phone someone had left behind";
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], whip [Brit, informal], blag [Brit, informal]
    
10. [informal] Take illegally
    "Someone lifted my wallet at the concert";
    - rustle
     
11. Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    "The student lifted entire paragraphs from Wikipedia";
    - plagiarize, plagiarise [Brit]
     
12. Cancel officially
    "lift an embargo";
    - revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
     
13. Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
    "Food is lifted into Bosnia";
    - airlift
     
14. Take (root crops) out of the ground
    "lift potatoes"
     
15. Remove from a surface
    "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
     
16. Take off or away by decreasing
    "lift the pressure"
     
17. Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
    "lift the tulip bulbs"
     
18. Perform cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of someone's face
    "The actress decided to face-lift to maintain her youthful appearance";
    - face-lift
     
19. Make audible
    "He lifted a war whoop"
     
20. Pay off (a mortgage)
    "They finally lifted the mortgage on their home after 30 years"
     
21. Put an end to
    "lift a ban";
    - raise
     
22. Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
    "The huntsman lifted the hounds at the end of the day"
     
23. Invigorate or heighten
    "lift his ego"; "lift my spirits";
    - raise

See also: raised

Type of: alter, ameliorate, amend, appear, better, buckle, call, cancel, change, dig, dig out, displace, emit, end, fly, go, heave, improve, let loose, let out, liquidate, locomote, look, meliorate, mend, modify, move, operate, operate on, pay off, redeem, remove, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], seem, send for, steal, strike down, take, take away, terminate, travel, utter, warp, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Lifted