Elevate

Verb

 * 1)  To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
 * 2)  To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
 * 3)  To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
 * 4)  To lift someone's spirits; to elate.
 * 5)  To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

Synonyms

 * lift, raise
 * promote, exalt
 * ennoble, honour/honor, exalt
 * cheer up, elate
 * increase, raise, turn up, up

Antonyms

 * drop, lower
 * demote
 * depress, sadden
 * decrease, diminish, lower, reduce, turn down

Related terms

 * elevation
 * elevator
 * lever
 * levity

Adverbs for Elevate
morally; perceptibly; proudly; correspondingly; scarcely; partiahy.

Thesaurus
acculturate, advance, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, better, boost, bring forward, buoy up, canonize, cast up, civilize, crown, deify, edify, educate, elate, emend, enhance, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enshrine, enthrone, erect, escalate, exalt, fatten, favor, flush, forward, foster, glamorize, glorify, go straight, graduate, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, immortalize, improve, improve upon, jerk up, kick upstairs, knight, knock up, lard, levitate, lift, lift up, lionize, lob, loft, magnify, make an improvement, make legendary, meliorate, mend, nurture, pass, perk up, pick up, pitch, prefer, promote, raise, raise aloft, raise up, rear, rear aloft, rear up, refine upon, reform, rise, saint, sanctify, set up, sky, socialize, stand upright, stick up, straighten out, take up, throne, throw up, transfigure, transform, up, upbuoy, upcast, upend, upgrade, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upright, upthrow

Etymology
< elevatus:, past participle of elevare: < e: + levare: < levis:; see levity and lever.

Translations

 * Estonian: tõstma
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Italian:


 * promote
 * See promote


 * French:


 * Italian:

Verb
elevate