elevating

Verb

elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated)

1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
   • The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.

   Synonyms:

   lift, raise

   Antonyms:

   drop, lower

2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
   • Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated
     Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act I, scene 1, page 6

   Synonyms:

   exalt, promote, advance, aggrandize, dignify, ennoble, honor, nobilitate, prefer, raise

   Antonyms:

   demote, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, depress, discredit

   1. (transitive) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
      • Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?
3. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
   • The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.

   Synonyms:

   ennoble, exalt, honor, advance, aggrandize, dignify, nobilitate, prefer, promote, raise

4. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
   • A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
5. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
   • […] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, London: Henry Herringman, Section 4, Chapter 4, pp. 73-74

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