Word Meanings - LIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIFT)

• Bear
• Carry
• lift
• transport
• convey
• maintain
• uphold
• suffer
• undergo
• support
• tolerate
• waft
• yield
• sustain
• hold
• harbor
• entertain
• fill
• enact
• endure
• admit
• produce
• generate
• Heave
• Lift
• raise
• uplift
• upraise
• sublevate
• hoist
• Raise
• heave
• elevate
• exalt
• advance
• promote
• heighten
• enhance
• awaken
• rouse
• excite
• call forth
• cultivate
• rear
• collect
• summon
• erect
• originate
• propagate
• Rear Raise
• breed
• discipline
• train
• educate
• instruct
• foster
• establish
• construct

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIFT)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert

Related words: (words related to LIFT)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.