Hoisted Synonyms and Antonyms

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lifted
  2. uplifted
  3. wound
  4. upraised
  5. hove
  6. raised
  7. upheld
  8. elevated
  9. reared
  10. jacked
  11. boosted
Antonyms:
  1. fallen
  2. dropped
  3. pushed
  4. lowered
To raise or haul up, often with the help of a mechanical apparatus.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lifted

Hoisted Sentence Examples

  • He therefore hoisted the signal of recall.

  • To continue the strife when Wellington was firmly established on the line of the Garonne, and Lyons and Bordeaux had hoisted the Bourbonfleur de lys, was seen by all but Napoleon to be sheer madness; but it needed the pressure of his marshals in painful interviews at Fontainebleau to bring him to reason.

  • The British flag was hoisted on the 12th of June, and the conditions of the occupation were explained in an annex to the convention, dated the 1st of July.

  • These colonists hoisted the British flag on Peel Island (Chichijima), and settled there.

  • At the Restoration he returned, and became one of the commissioners of the navy, but on the outbreak of the second Dutch War in 1664 he once more hoisted his flag as rear-admiral of the Blue, and took part in the battle of Lowestoft (June 3rd, 1665).

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