Definitions for uplifted

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uplifted up·lift·ed

Spelling: [uhp-lif-tid]

IPA: /ʌpˈlɪf tɪd/

Uplifted is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in uplifted (defilptu).

Definitions for uplifted

noun

1. an act of lifting up or raising; elevation.
2. the process or work of improving, as socially, intellectually, or morally.
3. emotional or spiritual exaltation.
4. a brassiere.
5. Geology. an upheaval.

adjective

1. improved, as in mood or spirit.
2. raised or elevated, as a beam.

verb (used with object)

1. to lift up; raise; elevate.
2. to improve socially, culturally, morally, or the like:
3. to exalt emotionally or spiritually.

verb (used without object)

1. to become uplifted.

Origin of uplifted

1250-1300; Middle English: orig., past participle of uplift

Examples for uplifted

At one moment he was uplifted by strong emotions, at the next moment he was in collapse.

"She'll be there," he told himself, and he walked home with uplifted head.

He stopped an instant with uplifted foot, then turned and made directly for us.

The Father had risen to his feet, and he spoke the last words with uplifted hand.

"It's yonder," he cried, and pointed it out to himself with uplifted finger.

I saw that it would never do with us, and that it ought, as a matter of fact, to be uplifted.

But these are not times when we need to be uplifted and showered with haughty rhetoric.

They rescued the people from barbarism, and uplifted the standard of the cross.

In the meantime, the uplifted hand of Hawkeye was above him.

When I passed an hour later she was still there, her hand on the uplifted latch.