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1. Causing cheerfulness, happiness, hope, or moral elevation

1. The rise of something
   "the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky"

1. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
   "Music can uplift your spirits";
   - elate, lift up, pick up, intoxicate
    
2. Lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
   "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
    
3. Lift up or elevate

Derived forms: upliftings

Type of: arise, ascension, ascent, come up, excite, go up, lift, move up, push up, rise, rising, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, uprise

Encyclopedia: Uplifting