elevate

Pronunciation: /ˈɛləveɪt/

The English word “elevate” has 12 meanings listed here.

verb

To raise (something) to a higher position.
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).
To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
To lift the spirits of (someone)
To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

adjective

Elevated, raised aloft.

Etymology

From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō…

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