Sekirov Dictionary

elevate

/ˈɛləveɪt/

verb 11
/ˈɛləvət/ adjective 1
forms 6

verb11

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To raise (something) to a higher position.
- The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
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To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
- Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.
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(old-fashioned) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
- […] the Uncle had more than once elevated his Voice, so as to be heard down Stairs — 1749
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To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
- A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
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To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
- Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones, — 1682
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To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
- Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?
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To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
- The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
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To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
- […] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it: — 1665
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(informal, old-fashioned) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
- [Johnson,] from drinking only water, supposed every body who drank wine to be elevated — 1791
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(no longer used) To lift the spirits of (someone)
- […] Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest, — 1667
(no longer used) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

elevate

/ˈɛləvət/

adjective1

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(no longer used) Elevated, raised aloft.
- The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed, — 1548

forms

elevated · elevating · elevates · elevateth · more elevate · most elevate

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