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Synonyms for lift
Synonyms for lift: raise, facelift and raising. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for lift
Interchangeable with lift, one per sense
Audited under lift's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one lift carries in that sense.
- raisenoun, in the sense "the act of raising something"
- faceliftnoun, in the sense "plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name lift as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- raisingraising is a noun in the sense "the event of something being raised upward"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under lift and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the act of raising something
He responded with a lift of his eyebrow.
lift in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She gave the heavy box a lift onto the top shelf before her shift ended.
- With one lift of the lid, steam poured out of the simmering pot.
How it behaves: In this sense lift usually appears as "a lift of" followed by the thing raised, often paired with a verb like give or respond with, in a slightly formal register.
The true synonym
raise
Same sentence, swapped: He responded with a raise of his eyebrow.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where lift stands in the sentence above.
- shooting
- roll
- rolling
The opposite, in this sense
drop reverses lift as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of lift takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- drop
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face
Her surgeon recommended a lift to smooth the deep wrinkles.
The true synonym
facelift
Same sentence, swapped: Her surgeon recommended a facelift to smooth the deep wrinkles.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where lift stands in the sentence above.
- rise
- raise
- settle
Where lift turns up in the game
lift is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where lift is the trap
- travelverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is journey, in the sense "travel upon or across", so lift is there to be ruled out.
- grabverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is seize, in the sense "capture the attention or imagination of", with lift sitting one tile away.
- risenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rising, in the sense "a movement upward", and lift is one of the three tiles that lose.
- creamverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is skim, in the sense "remove from the surface", so lift is there to be ruled out.
Play lift
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lift reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
lift is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 6. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.