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Adjective: uplifted  'úp,lif-tid
  1. Exalted emotionally especially with pride
    "She felt uplifted by the standing ovation"
Verb: uplift  'úp,lift
  1. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
    "Music can uplift your spirits";
    - elate, lift up, pick up, intoxicate
     
  2. Lift up or elevate
    "The crane uplifted the heavy container"
     
  3. Increase or improve (price, condition, quantity, etc.)
    "The new marketing strategy uplifted sales by 20%"; "The program aims to uplift disadvantaged communities"
     
  4. Lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
    "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"

See also: cock-a-hoop [informal], elated, gleeful, gleesome [archaic], joyful, jubilant, on top of the world [informal]

Type of: arise, come up, excite, go up, lift, move up, push up, rise, shake, shake up, stir, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Uplifted

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