elevate
/ˈɛləveɪt/ verb C1- To raise (something) to a higher position. · The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
- To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
- To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request). · Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?
- To confer honor or nobility on (someone). · The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
- To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value. · A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
- To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
- To increase the intensity or degree of (something). · Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.
- To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
He/she/it elevates · Past elevated · Past participle elevated · -ing form elevating
Verb forms
- Base form
- elevate
- He/she/it
- elevates
- Past
- elevated
- Past participle
- elevated
- -ing form
- elevating
From the library
He was a simple-looking lawyer’s clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace-loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air à l’Anglaise, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne.
“I have enemies?” replied Dantès; “my position is not sufficiently elevated for that.
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