uplift
verb (used with object)
to lift up; raise; elevate.
have uplifted
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present perfectof uplift.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Their words have uplifted the family during a time of need.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Therefore I thee have uplifted, And bear thee aloft by the hair Of thy head, like a cloud that is drifted Through the vast unknown of the air!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To-day lines of villas and stately mansions have uplifted themselves on the avenues, and gay crowds throng the streets.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
I can tell of manhood debased by you, That I have uplifted and crowned anew.
From Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And, besides, you will find that the enormous majority of men who by their service have uplifted or enriched humanity have been men enough to lead the natural life.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
