lift up

lift up (third-person singular simple present lifts up, present participle lifting up, simple past and past participle lifted up)

1. (transitive) To elevate to a higher position.
   • 1954 [1927 March], Mao Tse-tung, “Report on an Investigation on the Peasant Movement in Hunan”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung‎, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 29‎:

     In short, all those whom the gentry had despised, those whom they had trodden into the dirt, people with no place in society, people with no right to speak, have now audaciously lifted up their heads. They have not only lifted up their heads but taken power into their hands.

2. (transitive) To exalt the mood of someone.

   Ending the evening with an Abba song really lifted up the crowd.

3. (transitive) To raise the volume of (one's voice).

   The congregation lifted up their voices in praise.

• liftup (noun)

• pitful, uplift