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- pronunciation:
- e
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veIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
elevates, elevating, elevated |
| definition 1: |
to raise or lift up to a higher physical position.
Her doctor told her she should elevate her legs.In the final scene, the stagehands will elevate the platform that the actor stands on.- synonyms:
- lift, move up, raise
- antonyms:
- lower
- similar words:
- boost, heave, hoist, rise, upheave, uprear
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| definition 2: |
to raise or promote to a higher level or status.
Music always elevates his spirits.She was elevated recently to the rank of full professor.- synonyms:
- advance, exalt, move up, promote, raise, upgrade
- antonyms:
- degrade, demote, humble, lower
- similar words:
- aggrandize, ennoble, kick upstairs
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| definition 3: |
to improve the cultural, intellectual, or moral level of.
Somewhat arrogantly, he hoped to elevate her taste in literature.The moralistic readings were intended to elevate the minds of the students.- synonyms:
- improve, lift
- antonyms:
- depress
- similar words:
- busy, cheer, heighten, raise, uplift
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| definition 4: |
to increase in degree or volume.
A diet high in saturated fat is likely to elevate one's cholesterol.They wrapped the shivering child in blankets in order to elevate his body temperature.- synonyms:
- advance, boost, heighten, intensify
- antonyms:
- lower
- similar words:
- escalate, hike, raise
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| related words: |
augment, better, crown, educate, enrich, glorify, illuminate, increase, pinnacle, rear, refine |
adverb + (v.)elevate
artificially, chronically, moderately, morally, significantly, simultaneously, single-handedly, slightly, sufficiently, thereby
(v.)elevate
+ noun
affect,
anxiety,
awareness,
baseline,
blood,
cabinet,
celebrity,
chin,
cholesterol,
concentration,
consciousness,
count,
depression,
discourse,
elite,
enzyme,
estrogen,
fairway,
foot,
heart,
heaven,
height,
hip,
hormone,
humanity,
importance,
inch,
insulin,
integration,
lead,
level,
limb,
mood,
muscle,
norm,
object,
obscurity,
orange,
piling,
platform,
position,
pressure,
prestige,
profession,
profile,
prominence,
pursuit,
rank,
rate,
reputation,
risk,
sainthood,
score,
self-esteem,
serotonin,
serum,
spirit,
standing,
stature,
status,
stress,
taste,
tee,
temperature,
threshold,
tone,
triglyceride,
virtue,
wound
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| derivation: |
elevatingly (adv.) |
The word elevate
contains the following parts:
lev, liev
Latin
root
that means light (in weight)
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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