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elevating

/verb el-uh-veyt; adjective el-uh-veyt, -vit/US // verb ˈɛl əˌveɪt; adjective ˈɛl əˌveɪt, -vɪt //UK // (ˈɛlɪˌveɪt) //

高昂的,高举,高昂,高架

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    el·e·vat·ed, el·e·vat·ing.

    • : to move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.
    • : to raise to a higher state, rank, or office; exalt; promote: to elevate an archbishop to cardinal.
    • : to raise to a higher intellectual or spiritual level: Good poetry may elevate the mind.
    • : to raise the spirits; put in high spirits.
    • : to raise in pitch or volume.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. raised; elevated.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpromote; augment
Antonyms
verbraise spirits
Antonyms

Examples

  • Steinmetz is one of four practice squad players Washington protected this week, and it may have to elevate him for the game — for depth, if nothing else.

  • In my mind, her cooking elevates the chalet to five-star status.

  • Meanwhile, reporter Gene Park elevated the series to “must wait at GameStop on midnight launch day,” a distinction he usually reserved for “Halo” and “Zelda” games.

  • Most of the unstable air will be “elevated” in nature, while the deeper, unstable air mass rooted to the ground should stay to our south, over the Carolinas.

  • Let’s look at some numbers that show how much both players have elevated their games in the last four years.

  • “Sometimes elevating the heart rate will cause additional pounding in your head,” says Crandall.

  • How effective do you feel the medium is in campaigning for social justice and elevating social consciousness?

  • Last year Ellen Page made waves by elevating the celebrity video game cameo to an art form.

  • Jenkins manages to humanize Manning while simultaneously explaining and elevating his mythology.

  • Bratton brought along Maple, elevating him in a single leap from Lieutenant to Deputy Commissioner for Operations.

  • These gloomy crypts are a school of Christian love and gentle charity, of ennobling thoughts and elevating impulses.

  • He has no surplus force left to expend in elevating mental pursuits, for it has been all exhausted in severe physical labor.

  • Evading any further question, Peter hastily traversed the vault, elevating the light so as to reveal the contents of each cell.

  • In arostatics, a machine or apparatus for elevating and sustaining bodies in the air.

  • Love, protective and elevating on the one side, must be met with love, confiding and trustful on the other.