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| Main Entry: |
hoist
 [hoist or, sometimes, hahyst] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift |
| Synonyms: | elevate, erect, heave, pick up, raise, rear, take up, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | drop, fall, hold down, lower, push |
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| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | push, usually up |
| Synonyms: | advance, goose, heave, hoist, lift, raise, shove, thrust |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push, usually up |
| Synonyms: | advance, elevate, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, raise, shove, thrust, upraise, uprear |
Example Sentences
- The stretchers operate on battery power and lift patients, so paramedics do not have to hoist patients into ambulances.
- Honest people are hoist on their own petard by bad laws and crusading cops.
- It has a deep-water dock with a hoist and a screened and covered sitting area.
| Main Entry: | carry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transport physical object |
| Synonyms: | backpack, bear, bring, cart, channel, conduct, convey, convoy, displace, ferry, fetch, freight, funnel, give, haul, heft, hoist, import, lift, lug, move, pack, pipe, portage, relay, relocate, remove, schlepp, shift, shoulder, sustain, take, tote, traject, transfer, transmit, transplant, truck, waft |
| Main Entry: | elevate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift up |
| Synonyms: | erect, fetch up, heighten, hike up, hoist, jack up, levitate, poise, pump, put up, pyramid, raise, ramp, rear, shoot up, stilt, take up, tilt, uphold, uplift, upraise |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, drop, lessen, lower, push down |
| Main Entry: | elevation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | height; high ground |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, altitude, ascent, boost, eminence, heave, hill, hillock, hoist, levitation, mountain, platform, ridge, rise, roof, top, uplift, upthrow |
| Notes: | an elevation is a two-dimensional scale drawing of something as if one were viewing it from one side; a section is a two-dimensional scale drawing of one part or detail of an object or structure; and a plan is a two-dimensional scale drawing showing the view of an object or structure as if one were looking down on it from above |
| Antonyms: | depression, lowness |
| Main Entry: | elevator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lift |
| Synonyms: | conveyor, dumbwaiter, escalator, hoist |
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | hang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill by suspension from a rope |
| Synonyms: | execute, gibbet, hoist, lynch, noose, scrag, send to the gallows, stretch*, string up, swing* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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