lifteth

Verb

lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)

1. (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
   • The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
   1. (ambitransitive, transitive) To cause to move upwards.
      • Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales
2. (slang, transitive) To steal.
   • Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
     And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West
3. (slang, transitive) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
   • Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 258
4. (slang, transitive) To arrest (a person).
   • Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.2000, Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles
5. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

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