elevate

To elevate is to lift up, either literally or figuratively. One way to elevate your mood is to exercise and elevate your heart rate. But if you exercise too hard and sprain your ankle, you might have to elevate it by propping it on a pillow.

An elevator elevates you: it carries you to a higher floor in a building. Elevate can also mean to raise something to a higher intellectual level, as when an informed speaker elevates the level of debate about an issue. A boss can elevate, or promote, a worker to a better position. For example, a restaurant manager might elevate a superb busboy to the position of waiter. Elevate comes from Latin elevates, which means “to raise” or even "to lighten.”

Definitions of elevate

v raise from a lower to a higher position

Synonyms:: bring up, get up, lift, raise

Antonyms:: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down
move something or somebody to a lower position

Types:: show 22 types...; hide 22 types...; get up
cause to rise; jack, jack up
lift with a special device; shoulder
lift onto one's shoulders; kick up
cause to rise by kicking; hoist, lift, wind
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; trice, trice up
raise with a line; hoist, run up
raise; hoist
move from one place to another by lifting; pump
raise (gases or fluids) with a pump; levitate
cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; underlay
raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; skid
elevate onto skids; pinnacle
raise on or as if on a pinnacle; chin, chin up
raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar; leaven, prove, raise
cause to puff up with a leaven; heighten
increase the height of; boost, hike, hike up
increase; gather up, lift up, pick up
take and lift upward; erect, rear
cause to rise up; trice, trice up
hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope; pitch, set up
erect and fasten; cock up, prick, prick up
raise

Type of:: displace, move
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

v raise in rank or condition

Synonyms:: lift, raise

Types:: dignify
raise the status of; exalt
raise in rank, character, or status; deify
exalt to the position of a God

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

Synonyms:: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade

Antonyms:: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; tenure
give life-time employment to; bring up
promote from a lower position or rank; spot promote
promote on the spot; ennoble, entitle, gentle
give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility; favor, favour, prefer
promote or prefer over another; brevet
promote somebody by brevet, in the military; baronetise, baronetize
confer baronetcy upon; lord
make a lord of someone; dub, knight
raise (someone) to knighthood; advantage
give an advantage to

Type of:: assign, delegate, depute, designate
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

v raise from a lower to a higher position

v raise in rank or condition

v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

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elevate

v raise from a lower to a higher position

v raise in rank or condition

v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

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