uplifting


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up·lift

 (ŭp-lĭft′)
tr.v. up·lift·ed, up·lift·ing, up·lifts
1. To raise; elevate.
2. To raise to a higher social, intellectual, or moral level or condition.
3. To raise to spiritual or emotional heights; exalt: music that uplifts the spirit.
adj. (ŭp′lĭft′)
Uplifted.
n. (ŭp′lĭft′)
1. The act, process, or result of raising or lifting up.
2. An effort or a movement to improve social, moral, or intellectual standards.
3. Geology An upheaval.
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uplifting

(ʌpˈlɪftɪŋ)
adj
acting to raise moral, spiritual, cultural, etc levels
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Noun1.uplifting - the rise of somethinguplifting - the rise of something; "the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky"
rising, ascension, ascent, rise - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
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uplifting

adjective inspiring, moving, touching, affecting, warming, stirring, cheering, heart-warming a charming and uplifting love story
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Translations

uplifting

[ʌpˈlɪftɪŋ] ADJ → inspirador, edificante
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uplifting

[ʌpˈlɪftɪŋ] adj → qui met de bonne humeur
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uplifting

adj experience → erhebend; music, film, story → erhebend, erbaulich
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Immediately, as if the uplifting of the smoke had been prearranged, the discovered troops burst into a rasping yell, and a hundred flames jetted toward the retreating band.
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But Psyche, uplifting her finger, Said -- "Sadly this star I mistrust -- Her pallor I strangely mistrust -- Ah, hasten!
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He was going both to rest for a fortnight, and in the very heart of the people, in the farthest wilds of the country, to enjoy the sight of that uplifting of the spirit of the people, of which, like all residents in the capital and big towns, he was fully persuaded.
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Maria, situated in that quarter, was, during the general uplifting of the land, raised to nearly three times the height of any other part of the coast.
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