Elevate
verb
To move or raise something to a higher position.
We need to elevate the patient's head to help him breathe.
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verb
To increase in amount or level.
The new advertising campaign hopes to elevate sales.
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- elevate sales
- elevate level
verb
To make someone or something more important or better.
She has worked to elevate the status of women in society.
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- elevate status
- elevate importance
verb
To promote someone to a higher job position.
After years of hard work, she was finally elevated to General Manager.
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- elevate someone to...
- elevate from...
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Formal
verb
To move or raise something to a higher position.
We need to elevate the patient's head to help him breathe.
Often appears as...
- elevate something to...
- elevate someone to...
verb
To increase in amount or level.
The new advertising campaign hopes to elevate sales.
Often appears as...
- elevate sales
- elevate level
verb
To make someone or something more important or better.
She has worked to elevate the status of women in society.
Often appears as...
- elevate status
- elevate importance
verb
To promote someone to a higher job position.
After years of hard work, she was finally elevated to General Manager.
Often appears as...
- elevate someone to...
- elevate from...
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used for objects or body parts being moved upwards.
Please elevate the flag to the top of the pole.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
In healthcare, it means lifting a body part for treatment or comfort.
Elevate your leg to reduce the swelling.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Can describe enhancing status or prestige, not just physical position.
The award served to elevate the school's reputation.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used for objects or body parts being moved upwards.
Please elevate the flag to the top of the pole.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
In healthcare, it means lifting a body part for treatment or comfort.
Elevate your leg to reduce the swelling.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Can describe enhancing status or prestige, not just physical position.
The award served to elevate the school's reputation.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used for objects or body parts being moved upwards.
Please elevate the flag to the top of the pole.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
In healthcare, it means lifting a body part for treatment or comfort.
Elevate your leg to reduce the swelling.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Can describe enhancing status or prestige, not just physical position.
The award served to elevate the school's reputation.
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Peter Attia: What if...
is this. If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food. It's more likely too much blood sugar. Now, we know that refined grains and starches elevate your blood sugar in the short run, and there's even reason to believe that sugar
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A digital reimagining of...
that might have influenced his command decisions. Now, back to these contour lines. This is the best elevation data that I could find. I traced all of the lines, you see in the black and white drawings, some of those lines, stitched them together, gave them elevation values,
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The psychology of...
elevated and sometimes detrimental self-involvement. But it's not just a personality type that shows up in advice columns. It's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. The psychological definition of narcissism is an inflated, grandiose self-image.
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Elevating simple...
elevate the flavor of the vegetables I do this for a couple reasons one I think it's a lot harder to cook vegetables and make them freely delicious I mean who doesn't like the smell of frying bacon if you take like a really humble vegetable like a beet and make people
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Why tragedies are...
help us understand the allure. First, the tragic hero should be elevated in rank and ability, but also relatable. Perhaps he is a king, or extraordinary in some other way. But because you and I are neither unusually good nor unusually bad, neither is the hero.
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What is abstract...
though not pre-planned, process. These characteristics made Pollock into a celebrity, and within art history, they also elevated him to the mythified status of the genius artist as hero. So rather than evening the playing field for all creative minds,
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From Aaliyah to Jay-Z:...
have a communication, see somebody elevate and move forward, to take a variety of different pictures, you know? Him in a spacesuit. He's a Martian, you know, what can I say, you know? But it was about seeing his growth, and having an important role
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Everest Biology - Life...
to use a local example purebred yaks can no longer live at the elevation of where they used to live my whole family has lived in these mountains their whole life they have seen changes themselves and they've lived through
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Fluffy Chicks are Blown...
is to build these elevated nest platforms for their chicks so the chicks can stay try each conical nest is constructed from grass and mud it's like a displaced and these raised isolated nests should keep the chicks
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The great conspiracy...
not only pardoning him but even accepting him as a close advisor and elevating him to important posts. Brutus was hesitant to conspire against the man who had treated him like a son, but in the end,
Video examples
Peter Attia: What if...
is this. If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food. It's more likely too much blood sugar. Now, we know that refined grains and starches elevate your blood sugar in the short run, and there's even reason to believe that sugar
Video examples
A digital reimagining of...
that might have influenced his command decisions. Now, back to these contour lines. This is the best elevation data that I could find. I traced all of the lines, you see in the black and white drawings, some of those lines, stitched them together, gave them elevation values,
Video examples
The psychology of...
elevated and sometimes detrimental self-involvement. But it's not just a personality type that shows up in advice columns. It's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. The psychological definition of narcissism is an inflated, grandiose self-image.
Video examples
Elevating simple...
elevate the flavor of the vegetables I do this for a couple reasons one I think it's a lot harder to cook vegetables and make them freely delicious I mean who doesn't like the smell of frying bacon if you take like a really humble vegetable like a beet and make people
Video examples
Why tragedies are...
help us understand the allure. First, the tragic hero should be elevated in rank and ability, but also relatable. Perhaps he is a king, or extraordinary in some other way. But because you and I are neither unusually good nor unusually bad, neither is the hero.
Video examples
What is abstract...
though not pre-planned, process. These characteristics made Pollock into a celebrity, and within art history, they also elevated him to the mythified status of the genius artist as hero. So rather than evening the playing field for all creative minds,
Video examples
From Aaliyah to Jay-Z:...
have a communication, see somebody elevate and move forward, to take a variety of different pictures, you know? Him in a spacesuit. He's a Martian, you know, what can I say, you know? But it was about seeing his growth, and having an important role
Video examples
Everest Biology - Life...
to use a local example purebred yaks can no longer live at the elevation of where they used to live my whole family has lived in these mountains their whole life they have seen changes themselves and they've lived through
Video examples
Fluffy Chicks are Blown...
is to build these elevated nest platforms for their chicks so the chicks can stay try each conical nest is constructed from grass and mud it's like a displaced and these raised isolated nests should keep the chicks
Video examples
The great conspiracy...
not only pardoning him but even accepting him as a close advisor and elevating him to important posts. Brutus was hesitant to conspire against the man who had treated him like a son, but in the end,
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Johanna Konta
British Athlete
What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.
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Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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Karl Popper
Austrian Philosopher
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
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Holt McCallany
American Actor
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
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Greg Lynn
American Architect
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
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Diana Nyad
American Author
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
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Denis Diderot
French Editor
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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Common
American Musician
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
Quote examples
Johanna Konta
British Athlete
What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.
Quote examples
Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
Quote examples
Karl Popper
Austrian Philosopher
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Quote examples
Henry David Thoreau
American Author
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Quote examples
Holt McCallany
American Actor
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
Quote examples
Greg Lynn
American Architect
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
Quote examples
Diana Nyad
American Author
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
Quote examples
Denis Diderot
French Editor
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Quote examples
Common
American Musician
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
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