lift

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To raise something to a higher position.

   He lifted the box onto the shelf.

2. 2
   noun

   A free ride in a vehicle.

   They gave me a lift home after the party.

3. 3
   verb

   To officially end a rule, ban, or restriction.

   The government lifted the ban on travel last month.

4. 4
   verb

   To rise upward or move away.

   The fog slowly lifted as the sun came up.

Multiword verbs with lift

• lift off Phrasal verb A2

  to rise from the ground into the air

• lift up Phrasal verb A2

  to raise someone or something to a higher position

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Simplified etymology

Lift is an Old English word that shares a Germanic root with loft. Loft originally meant “air” or “sky,” as well as something situated high in the air, and developed the sense “upper room” in Middle English.

From Middle English lifte, luft, lefte (“air, sky, heaven”), from Old English lyft (“atmosphere, air”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“roof, sky, air”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”). Cognate with Old High German luft (“air”) (German Luft), Dutch lucht (“air”), Old Norse lopt, loft (“upper room, sky, air”). Doublet of loft and luft.

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