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Another word for uplift

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Verb

  1. To move (something) to a higher position

    See also:

    rise

  2. To raise to a high position or status

    Idioms:
    See also:

    rise

  3. To raise the spirits of

    See also:

    happy

Noun

  1. High spirits

    See also:

    happy

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Another word for uplift

Noun

  1. Social service

    See also:

    welfare

  2. Efforts to improve the lot of mankind

    See also:

    improvement

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Sentence Examples

  • Assume first, however, that there is no uplift from intrusive water.

  • English Christianity seemed to have no power to uplift the people.

  • After the subsidence came another period of uplift, possibly still in progress.

  • 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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