uplift

[ verb uhp-lift; noun uhp-lift ]

verb (used with object)

1. to lift up; raise; elevate.
2. to improve socially, culturally, morally, or the like:

   to uplift downtrodden and deprived peoples.

3. to exalt emotionally or spiritually.

verb (used without object)

1. to become uplifted.

noun

1. an act of lifting up or raising; elevation.
2. the process or work of improving, as socially, intellectually, or morally.
3. emotional or spiritual exaltation.

   Synonyms: enhancement, betterment, enrichment

4. a brassiere.
5. Geology. an upheaval.

uplift

verb

1. to raise; elevate; lift up
2. to raise morally, spiritually, culturally, etc
3. to collect (a passenger, parcel, etc); pick up

noun

1. the act, process, or result of lifting up
2. the act or process of bettering moral, social or cultural conditions, etc
3. 1. a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
   2. ( as modifier )

      an uplift bra

4. the process or result of land being raised to a higher level, as during a period of mountain building

Derived Forms

• upˈlifter, noun

Other Words From

• up·liftment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of uplift¹

First recorded in 1300–50, uplift is from the Middle English word upliften. See up-, lift

Example Sentences

The publisher ties how these attention metrics correlate to brand uplift metrics like awareness, consideration and action.

From Digiday

Now, it’s in the process of tying how brand uplift leads to advertiser commercial goals through its partnership with tech company Infosum.

From Digiday

Some campaigns don’t create any uplift at all, but others massively exceed these averages.

From Digiday

Walmart also saw a big uplift a few years ago when it updated its stores, notably with new grocery areas.

From Fortune

A lot of uplift would be expected, they say, if the eruptions were due to new magma pumping to the surface.

From Science News For Students

After all, both were in the 1930s, both involved kids wearing uniforms, both movements professed the goal of social uplift.

From The Daily Beast

Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”

From The Daily Beast

There was only the perpetual effort to improve the self and uplift the race.

From The Daily Beast

For one thing, the Obamas and Cosby were speaking to—and hoping to uplift—black audiences.

From The Daily Beast

And our comic books and movies, too, can uplift and enrich, or shape a disturbed imagination.

From The Daily Beast

Life had taught him that real riches and power only have value as they work for social uplift.

From Project Gutenberg

I see and hear no advocacy of Socialism whose burden is not the uplift of humanity.

From Project Gutenberg

Look back, young man, on the darksome turrets of your father's house, which uplift themselves above the sons of their people.

From Project Gutenberg

There is nothing so practical to uplift men or races as Christianity.

From Project Gutenberg

The little uplift of mood, coincident with the rifling of Riggs's person, had not worn over to this evening camp.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• excite
• exhilarate
• improve
• lift up