English Dictionary

elevate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛləveɪt/

動詞

他動詞 古風 廃用 口語 ユーモラス文体 ラテン語由来

(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position. / (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank. / (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

日本語の意味

（何かを）高い位置に持ち上げる / （人を）高位に昇進させる / （人に）栄誉や高い位の名誉を授ける

To make the ceremony more majestic, they decided to elevate the stage by two feet.

儀式をより荘厳にするために、彼らは舞台を約60センチ高く上げることに決めた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.

The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.

意味（2）

(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,

意味（3）

(transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.

意味（4）

(transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.

意味（5）

(transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

[…] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:

意味（6）

(transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).

意味（7）

(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).

[…] the Uncle had more than once elevated his Voice, so as to be heard down Stairs;

意味（8）

(transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)

[…] Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest,

意味（9）

(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

Steele entertained them till he was tipsy; when the same wine that stupified him, only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropt it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening.

意味（10）

(obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

[…] the Arabian Physicians […] endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the virgin birth of Jesus], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive […]

elevates （ present singular third-person ）

elevating （ participle present ）

elevated （ participle past ）

elevated （ past ）