| Main Entry: | hoist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift |
Synonyms: |
elevate, erect, heave, pick up, raise, rear, take up, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear |
Antonyms: |
drop, fall, hold down, lower, push |
| Main Entry: | admonish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | warn, strongly criticize |
Synonyms: |
advise, berate, call down, call on the carpet, censure, check, chide, come down hard on, counsel, ding, draw the line, enjoin, exhort, forewarn, give a going over, give a piece of one's mind, glue*, growl*, hoist, jack up, notice, rap on knuckles, rap, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, scold, sit on, slap on wrist, speak to, talk to, tell a thing or two, tell off, upbraid, warn |
Antonyms: |
applaud, approve, commend, compliment, extol, flatter, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push, usually up |
Synonyms: |
advance, elevate, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, raise, shove, thrust, upraise, uprear |
| Main Entry: | carry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transport physical object |
Synonyms: |
backpack, bear, bring, cart, channel, conduct, convey, convoy, displace, ferry, fetch, freight, funnel, give, haul, heft, hoist, import, lift, lug, move, pack, pipe, portage, relay, relocate, remove, schlepp, shift, shoulder, sustain, take, tote, traject, transfer, transmit, transplant, truck, waft |
| Main Entry: | elevate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift up |
Synonyms: |
erect, fetch up, heighten, hike up, hoist, jack up, levitate, poise, pump, put up, pyramid, raise, ramp, rear, shoot up, stilt, take up, tilt, uphold, uplift, upraise |
Antonyms: |
decrease, depress, drop, lessen, lower, push down |
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
Synonyms: |
assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear |
Antonyms: |
raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | hang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill by suspension from a rope |
Synonyms: |
execute, gibbet, hoist, lynch, noose, scrag, send to the gallows, stretch*, string up, swing* |
| Main Entry: | haul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move, pull to another spot |
Synonyms: |
back, boost, bring, buck, carry, cart, convey, drag, draw, elevate, gun, heave, heel, hoist, hump, jag, lift, lug, pack, piggy back, raise, rake, remove, ride, schlepp, shift, shoulder, tote, tow, trail, transport, trawl, truck, tug |
| Notes: | a hall is a corridor or passageway in a building; haul (noun) is something that is pulled or transported, and haul (verb) carry or drag slowly or heavily |
| Main Entry: | heave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift, throw with effort |
Synonyms: |
boost, cast, chuck, drag, elevate, fling, haul, heft, hoist, hurl, launch, pitch, pull, raise, send, sling, toss, tug |
| 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 |