to elevate
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4.4
- verb
- /ˈɛlɪˌveɪt/
- Formal
:
ascender a
- The committee decided to elevate her to a leadership position due to her excellent performance.
- elevate the status
- elevated position
- decision to elevate
He's refused to do that, to try to elevate his football legacy.
- He's refused to do that, to try to elevate his football legacy.
- Is it to help people or is it to elevate yourself?
- And actually, I subconsciously respect you less for elevating me to that specific status.
- But it's also like you need good people around you to elevate yourself.
- But that was a good show and it showed how Magic elevated the NBA.
- The only way that chaos will stop is if we stop elevating and admiring idiots like this.
- But what fitness won't give you is it won't elevate your status as a better person in some way.
- To me, the role to answer your question is that it elevates who I am and what my brand is.
- They have to protect the system that they believe elevated them.
- You're chasing money when chasing money is not going to necessarily elevate you.
- It shames them, call them a brain, it elevates them.
Examples
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The Vietnam War provided an additional thrust, elevating the importance of these issues in the social and medical spheres.
Academic text (2012) -
So elevate what you expect of yourself.
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I get to, you know, find talent to elevate the project.
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Is it to help people or is it to elevate yourself?
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But it's also like you need good people around you to elevate yourself.
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Their position on the team had elevated them to celebrity status among most of the student body.
Fiction book (2001) -
Following the incident, but before trial, Argentina elevated the issue to the U.N. Security Council.
Academic text (2017) -
Stephen Malone, who had been elevated to the rank of colonel just the previous week, assumed command.
Academic text (2011) -
When the Emperor died, Yehonala was elevated to Empress Dowager.
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To improve team morale, the manager planned to elevate the most dedicated employees within the company.
Synonyms
497
6.8
To give someone a new official title in a formal ceremony
417
3.4
To help something move forward or become better
215
3.7
To help someone become better off or more confident
182
2.9
Give someone a higher job or rank
154
2.7
To move to a higher job or position
65
5.9
Give someone a title that makes them part of the noble class
43
2.0
Go to a higher place or level
39
4.4
To move up to a more important job or position
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2.7
To move someone to a higher job or rank
23
3.6
To give someone a higher job or rank
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7.2
To raise someone to a higher position or praise them strongly
7
4.5
To get more successful and reach a higher social or economic position
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3.3
Move someone to a higher job or rank
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7.9
Make someone or something seem better in character and more respected
Promote someone to a higher job to move them out of a key role
To raise someone to a higher position of honor
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Etymology
The word elevate comes from the Latin parts e- which means 'up' and levare which means 'to raise', the same root behind elevator, so you can think of it as 'raising' a person up. So to elevate someone is to give them a higher job, rank, or status.