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Definition of LIFTING
Pronunciation : LIFTING

verb : LIFTING

Source:WordNet 3.1

  • 2. (

    ) take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" ;

  • 5. (

    ) make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" ;

  • 8. (

    ) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" ;

  • 9. (

    ) invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" ;

  • 11. (

    ) take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" ;

  • 13. (

    ) pay off (a mortgage) ;

  • 16. (

    ) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" ;

  • 17. (

    ) take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" ;

  • 18. (

    ) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs ;

  • 19. (

    ) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" ;

  • 21. (

    ) remove (hair) by scalping ;

  • 22. (

    ) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs" ;

  • 23. (

    ) remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" ;


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