LIFTING

Raise from a lower to a higher position

Example: "Raise your hands"

Take hold of something and move it to a different location

Example: "Lift the box onto the table"

Move upwards

Example: "Lift one's eyes"

Move upward

Example: "The fog lifted"

Make audible

Example: "He lifted a war whoop"

Cancel officially

Example: "He revoked the ban on smoking"

Make off with belongings of others

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

Example: "Hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

Invigorate or heighten

Example: "Lift my spirits"

Raise in rank or condition

Example: "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

Take off or away by decreasing

Example: "Lift the pressure"

Rise up

Example: "The building rose before them"

Pay off (a mortgage)

Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

Take illegally

Example: "Rustle cattle"

Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

Example: "Food is airlifted into bosnia"

Take (root crops) out of the ground

Example: "Lift potatoes"

Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture

Example: "The floor is lifting slowly"

Put an end to

Example: "Lift a ban"

Remove (hair) by scalping

Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery

Example: "Lift the tulip bulbs"

Remove from a surface

Example: "The detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face