Elevate vs Levitate - What's the difference?
elevate | levitate |
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
In transitive terms the difference between elevate and levitate
is that elevate is to increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound while levitate is to cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.As an adjective elevate
is elevated; raised aloft.elevate
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Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Synonyms
* (raise) lift, raise * (promote) promote, exalt * (ennoble) ennoble, honour/honor, exalt * (elate) cheer up, elate * (increase the intensity of) increase, raise, turn up, up (informal)Antonyms
* (raise) drop, lower * (promote) demote * (elate) depress, sadden * (increase the intensity of) decrease, diminish, lower, reduce, turn downExternal links
* * ----levitate
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Verb
(levitat)- The magician levitated the woman.
- The guru claimed that he could levitate .