English > lift up: 2 senses > verb 2, emotionMeaning | Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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Model | The good news will lift up her; The performance is likely to lift up Sue |
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Synonyms | elate, uplift, pick up, intoxicate |
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Cause to | rejoice, joy | Feel happiness or joy |
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Narrower | beatify | make blessedly happy |
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exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify | Fill with sublime emotion |
puff | make proud or conceited |
Broader | stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir | Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of |
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Opposite | depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise | lower someone's spirits |
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Spanish | alborozar, embriagar, intoxicar, regocijar |
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Catalan | embriagar, engatar, engrescar, intoxicar |
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