| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transportation |
Synonyms: |
car ride, drive, journey, passage, ride, run, transport |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, aid |
Synonyms: |
assist, assistance, boost, comfort, encouragement, hand, leg up, pick-me-up, reassurance, relief, secours, shot in the arm, succor, support |
Antonyms: |
harm, ill will |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move upwards; ascend |
Synonyms: |
arise, aspire, bear aloft, boost, bring up, build up, buoy up, climb, come up, disappear, disperse, dissipate, draw up, elevate, erect, goose, heft, hike, hike up, hoist, jack up, jump up, mount, move up, pick up, put up, raise, raise high, rear, rise, soar, take up, up, upheave, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, vanish |
Antonyms: |
descend, drop, lower |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeal, revoke |
Synonyms: |
annul, cancel, countermand, dismantle, end, recall, relax, remove, rescind, reverse, stop, terminate |
Antonyms: |
impose, set down |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
Synonyms: |
abstract, appropriate, cop, copy, crib, filch, hook, nip, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, pocket, purloin, snitch, swipe, take, thieve |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote, improve |
Synonyms: |
advance, ameliorate, boost, build up, dignify, elevate, enhance, exalt, hike, jack up, raise, support, upgrade |
Antonyms: |
demote, depress, dispirit, weaken |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
Synonyms: |
advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
Antonyms: |
blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | amend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, correct |
Synonyms: |
alter, ameliorate, better, change, elevate, enhance, fix, help, lift, make up for, mend, modify, pay one's dues, raise, rectify, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, square* |
Antonyms: |
blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, harm, impair, injure, mar, reduce, subtract, worsen |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
Synonyms: |
annex, borrow, clap, confiscate, cop, embezzle, filch, get fingers on, get hands on, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, hijack, liberate, lift, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, pilfer, pocket, secure, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp |
Antonyms: |
bequeath, bestow, give, return |
| Main Entry: | ascent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upward movement |
Synonyms: |
ascendance, ascending, ascension, clambering, climb, climbing, lift, mounting, rise, rising, scaling, spring, take off |
Antonyms: |
decline, descent, lowering |