Word Meanings - LIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIFT)
- Bear
- Carry
- lift
- transport
- convey
- maintain
- uphold
- suffer
- undergo
- support
- tolerate
- waft
- yield
- sustain
- hold
- harbor
- entertain
- fill
- enact
- endure
- admit
- produce
- generate
- Heave
- Lift
- raise
- uplift
- upraise
- sublevate
- hoist
- Raise
- heave
- elevate
- exalt
- advance
- promote
- heighten
- enhance
- awaken
- rouse
- excite
- call forth
- cultivate
- rear
- collect
- summon
- erect
- originate
- propagate
- Rear Raise
- breed
- discipline
- train
- educate
- instruct
- foster
- establish
- construct
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIFT)
- Retard
- hinder
- withhold
- withdraw
- recall
- depress
- degrade
- suppress
- oppose
- retreat
- decrease
- Eject
- expel
- discard
- discourage
- stifle
- exclude
- banish
- dismiss
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
Related words: (words related to LIFT)
- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - COLLECTEDLY
Composedly; coolly. - MAINTAIN
by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - SUSTAIN
F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - ADMITTER
One who admits. - STIFLED
Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne. - EJECTOR
A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - ENACTMENT
1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - LONG-SUFFERANCE
Forbearance to punish or resent. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - LIBRETTO
A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.