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US
/ˈəpɫɪft/
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NOUN
- (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
- a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts
VERB
- lift up or elevate
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lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
the earth's movement uplifted this part of town -
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
Music can uplift your spirits
How To Use uplift In A Sentence
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- The song, printed below, which had its first airing on BBC Radio Swindon, is a blend of guitar and keyboard work with some uplifting words of encouragement for the boys.
- His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity.
- This caused thermal uplift of Scotland and the East Shetland platform and volcanic activity.
- You have to sell to demonstrate actual uplifts.
- This isostatic rebound causes vertical uplift and the tensional forces due to the movement of the crust creates normal and graben faults. Mountain
- I'm uplifted by good reggae, but also old music like jazz, and the greats like Nat King Cole.
- Here the sequence of processes and landforms which exists between the tectonic uplift of an area and its reduction to a peneplain or erosion surface close to base level is believed to have occurred many times in certain regions.
- On Sudan, are we not uplifted by the prospect of peace and concord between our brothers in that country?
- But while we might not be seeing a qualitative uplift to economic growth, today's economy has changed in many ways, compared to most of the twentieth century.