lifting

Meanings

Plural: liftings

Verb

• raise from a lower to a higher position
• take hold of something and move it to a different location
• move upwards
• move upward
• make audible
• cancel officially
• make off with belongings of others
• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
• invigorate or heighten
• raise in rank or condition
• take off or away by decreasing
• rise up
• pay off (a mortgage)
• take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
• take illegally
• fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
• take (root crops) out of the ground
• call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
• rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
  • "The floor is lifting slowly"
• put an end to
• remove (hair) by scalping
• remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
• remove from a surface
• perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
• present participle and gerund of lift

Noun

• The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
• weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted
• plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance
• Theft.
• A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.

Synonyms

abstract, airlift, annul, arise, bring up, cabbage, come up, countermand, elevate, face-lift, facelift, filch, get up, go up, hoist, hook, lift, move up, nobble, overturn, pilfer, pinch, plagiarise, plagiarize, purloin, raise, rear, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rise, rustle, snarf, sneak, swipe, uprise, vacate, weightlifting, wind

Antonyms

fall, lower