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Another word for uplift

uplift Synonyms

uplift

n.

Social service
slum clearance, settlement work, rehabilitation, social guidance, slum improvement, social planning, social education, relief work; see also welfare 2.
Efforts to improve the lot of mankind
improvement, betterment, education, culture, enlightenment, humanitarian effort, social reform, planned economy, the Four Freedoms, social security; see also improvement 1.

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Another word for uplift

verb

To move (something) to a higher position:
boost, elevate, heave, hoist, lift, pick up, raise, rear², take up, uphold, upraise, uprear. See rise
To raise to a high position or status:
aggrandize, apotheosize, dignify, elevate, ennoble, exalt, glorify, magnify. Idiom: put on a pedestal. See rise
To raise the spirits of:
animate, buoy (up), elate, elevate, exhilarate, flush, inspire, inspirit, lift. (Obsolete) exalt. See happy

noun

High spirits:

animation, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, inspiration, lift. See happy

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Assume first, however, that there is no uplift from intrusive water.
Until the post-Mesozoic uplift of the Rocky Mountain region the north-western portion of the state drained westward.
The Ozark uplift tempers very agreeably the summers in the south, but does not affect the climate of the state as a whole.
Marine deposits were laid down over the south of the state after a submergence of the region; an uplift afterwards made of these deposits a coastal plain.
The ores of the Joplin district, in the Ozark uplift in the Mississippi Valley, are remarkable in that they are specially adapted to mechanical concentration.

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