If you lift something, you move it to another position, especially upwards.

If you lift a part of your body, you move it to a higher position.

If you lift your eyes or your head, you look up, for example when you have been reading and someone comes into the room.

If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something, they end it.

If something lifts your spirits or your mood, or if they lift, you start feeling more cheerful.

If something gives you a lift, it gives you a feeling of greater confidence, energy, or enthusiasm.

A lift is a device that carries people or goods up and down inside tall buildings.

If you give someone a lift somewhere, you take them there in your car as a favour to them.

If a government or organization lifts people or goods in or out of an area, it transports them there by aircraft, especially when there is a war.

To lift something means to increase its amount or to increase the level or the rate at which it happens.

If fog, cloud, or mist lifts, it reduces, for example by moving upwards or by becoming less thick.

If you lift root vegetables or bulbs, you dig them out of the ground.