Elevate vs Uplift - What's the difference?
elevate | uplift |
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 raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
The act or result of being uplifted.
(geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
(colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.
As verbs the difference between elevate and uplift
is that elevate is to raise (something) to a higher position; to lift while uplift is to raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.As an adjective elevate
is elevated; raised aloft.As a noun uplift is
the act or result of being uplifted.elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)