Definitions For Lift

noun

  • The act of raising something
  • A ride in a car
  • Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
  • Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
  • The act of giving temporary assistance
  • Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
  • One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
  • A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
  • A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
  • A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
  • The event of something being raised upward
  • The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
  • To move (something or someone) to a higher position
  • To rise up from the ground or some other surface
  • To move (someone or something) to a higher condition or position

verb

  • Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
  • Remove from a surface
  • Take off or away by decreasing
  • Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
  • Remove (hair) by scalping
  • Put an end to
  • Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
  • Raise in rank or condition
  • Invigorate or heighten
  • Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
  • Cancel officially
  • Make audible
  • Take (root crops) out of the ground
  • Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
  • Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
  • Take hold of something and move it to a different location
  • Move upward
  • Move upwards
  • Raise from a lower to a higher position
  • Make off with belongings of others
  • Take illegally
  • Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
  • Pay off (a mortgage)
  • Rise up

Is Lift a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
8

The word Lift is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Lift in a Sentence

  • The paramedics lifted the stretcher into the ambulance.
  • lift a bucket of water
  • He lifted his foot from the gas pedal.

Synonyms for Lift

Antonyms for Lift

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