lift
/lɪft/ verb B1- To raise or rise. · The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.· You never lift a finger to help me!
- To cause to move upwards.
- To steal.
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To arrest (a person).
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To lift weights; to weight-lift. · She lifts twice a week at the gym.
He/she/it lifts · Past lifted · Past participle lifted · -ing form lifting
Verb forms
- Base form
- lift
- He/she/it
- lifts
- Past
- lifted
- Past participle
- lifted
- -ing form
- lifting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
Akela lifted his head again and said, “He has eaten our food.
It was then that Bagheera lifted up his dripping chin, and in despair gave the Snake’s Call for protection--“We be of one blood, ye and I”--for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute.
Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
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