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weightlift

weightlift verb: to practise weightlifting.

Verb

weightlift (third-person singular simple present weightlifts, present participle weightlifting, simple past and past participle weightlifted)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To practise weightlifting.

Forms of weightlift

third-person singular presentweightlifts
present participleweightlifting
past participleweightlifted
pastweightlifted
alternative formweight-lift

Origin of weightlift

Back-formation from weightlifting.

Questions about weightlift

What does weightlift mean?
Weightlift means to practise weightlifting.
What part of speech is weightlift?
Weightlift is a verb.
What is the past tense of weightlift?
The past tense of weightlift is weightlifted.

Words near weightlift in the dictionary

  1. weightists
  2. weightless
  3. weightlessly
  4. weightlessness
  5. weightlessnesses
  6. weightlift
  7. weightlifted
  8. weightlifter
  9. weightlifters
  10. weightlifting
  11. weightlifting chalk

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