Uplift

1. (v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

2. (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

Thesaurus Entries

Great Leap Forward, abruptness, acclivity, acculturate, advance, advancement, aggrandize, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, anabasis, apotheose, apotheosis, apotheosize, ascension, ascent, assumption, bear up, beatification, beatify, better, bettering, betterment, boost, bring forward, buoy, buoy up, canonization, canonize, cast up, civilize, clamber, climb, climbing, crown, deification, deify, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, emend, enhance, enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine, enshrinement, enthrone, erect, erection, escalade, escalate, escalation, eugenics, euthenics, exalt, exaltation, fatten, favor, float, float high, flush, forward, foster, fountain, furtherance, glamorize, glorify, go straight, gush, gyring up, headway, heave, heft, height, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, illume, illumine, immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, increase, irradiate, jerk up, jet, jump, knock up, lard, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, lift up, lifting, lionize, lob, loft, magnify, make an improvement, make legendary, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount, mounting, nurture, perk up, pick up, pickup, pitch, precipitousness, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion, raise, raise aloft, raise up, raising, rear, rear aloft, rear up, rearing, recovery, refine upon, reform, restoration, revival, ride high, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, saint, saltation, sanctify, set up, shooting up, sky, soaring, socialize, spout, spring, spurt, stand upright, steepness, stick up, straighten out, surge, sursum corda, sustain, take up, takeoff, taking off, throne, throw up, transfigure, transform, up, upbear, upbeat, upbuoy, upbuoying, upcast, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upend, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, upheaval, upheave, uphill, uphoist, uphold, upleap, uplifting, upping, upraise, uprear, uprearing, upright, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upthrow, upthrust, uptrend, upward mobility, vault, verticalness, waft, zooming