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upraise
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erect |
| 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 up, make*, 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, uprear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push, usually up |
| Synonyms: | advance, elevate, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, raise, shove, thrust, upraise, uprear |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone feel happier |
| Synonyms: | animate, brace up, brighten, buck up, buoy, comfort, console, elate, elevate, embolden, encourage, enliven, exhilarate, give a lift, gladden, hearten, help, incite, inspirit, let the sun shine in, perk up, pick up, put on cloud nine, put on top of the world, snap out of it, solace, steel, strengthen, uplift, upraise, warm |
| Antonyms: | bring down, depress, dishearten, make unhappy |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make to feel better |
| Synonyms: | abate, aid, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assist, assuage, bolster, buck up, calm, cheer, commiserate with, compose, condole, confirm, console, delight, divert, ease, encourage, enliven, free, gladden, grant respite, hearten, help, inspirit, invigorate, lighten burden, make well, mitigate, nourish, put at ease, quiet fears, reanimate, reassure, refresh, relieve, remedy, revitalize, revive, salve, soften, solace, soothe, strengthen, stroke, succor, support, sustain, sympathize, uphold, upraise |
| Antonyms: | aggravate, annoy, bother, distress, exasperate, hurt, irritate, provoke, torment, torture, trouble, vex |
| Main Entry: | console |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relieve, comfort |
| Synonyms: | animate, assuage, buck up, calm, cheer, condole with, encourage, express sympathy, gladden, inspirit, lift, solace, soothe, tranquilize, untrouble, upraise |
| Antonyms: | agitate, annoy, antagonize, depress, discourage, dispirit, disturb, hurt, sadden, trouble, upset |
| 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: | elevated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | raised up |
| Synonyms: | aerial, high, high-rise, lifted, raised, stately, tall, towering, upheaved, uplifted, upraised, uprisen |
| Antonyms: | base, decreased, dropped, lessened, lowered, lowly |
| 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: | high |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tall; at a great distance aloft |
| Synonyms: | aerial, alpine, altitudinous, big, colossal, elevated, eminent, flying, formidable, giant, gigantic, grand, great, high rise, high-reaching, hovering, huge, immense, large, lofty, long, sky-high, sky-scraping, soaring, steep, towering, tremendous, uplifted, upraised |
| Antonyms: | dwarfed, low, lowly, short, stunted |
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