elevate🔊

To raise (something) to a higher position. +

To promote (someone) to a higher rank. +

(computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).

To confer honor or nobility on (someone). +

To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

To increase the intensity or degree of (something). +

(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).

(obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone) +

(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

(obsolete) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc. +

(obsolete) Elevated, raised aloft.