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uplift
[ verb uhp-lift; noun uhp-lift ]
verb (used with object)
- to lift up; raise; elevate.
- to improve socially, culturally, morally, or the like:
to uplift downtrodden and deprived peoples.
- to exalt emotionally or spiritually.
verb (used without object)
- to become uplifted.
noun
- an act of lifting up or raising; elevation.
- the process or work of improving, as socially, intellectually, or morally.
- emotional or spiritual exaltation.
Synonyms: enhancement, betterment, enrichment
- a brassiere.
- Geology. an upheaval.
uplift
verb
- to raise; elevate; lift up
- to raise morally, spiritually, culturally, etc
- to collect (a passenger, parcel, etc); pick up
noun
- the act, process, or result of lifting up
- the act or process of bettering moral, social or cultural conditions, etc
- a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
- ( as modifier )
an uplift bra
- 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·liftment noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The publisher ties how these attention metrics correlate to brand uplift metrics like awareness, consideration and action.
Now, it’s in the process of tying how brand uplift leads to advertiser commercial goals through its partnership with tech company Infosum.
Some campaigns don’t create any uplift at all, but others massively exceed these averages.
Walmart also saw a big uplift a few years ago when it updated its stores, notably with new grocery areas.
A lot of uplift would be expected, they say, if the eruptions were due to new magma pumping to the surface.
After all, both were in the 1930s, both involved kids wearing uniforms, both movements professed the goal of social uplift.
Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”
There was only the perpetual effort to improve the self and uplift the race.
For one thing, the Obamas and Cosby were speaking to—and hoping to uplift—black audiences.
And our comic books and movies, too, can uplift and enrich, or shape a disturbed imagination.
Life had taught him that real riches and power only have value as they work for social uplift.
I see and hear no advocacy of Socialism whose burden is not the uplift of humanity.
Look back, young man, on the darksome turrets of your father's house, which uplift themselves above the sons of their people.
There is nothing so practical to uplift men or races as Christianity.
The little uplift of mood, coincident with the rifling of Riggs's person, had not worn over to this evening camp.
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