What part of speech is elevate?

Elevate can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. elevate is a verb, present, 1st person singular of elevate (infinitive).
  • 2. elevate is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does elevate mean?

Definitions

Adjective

elevate - Elevated; raised aloft.

Verb

elevate - raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
elevate - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
elevate - raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

Examples of elevate

#   Sentence  
1. verb New truth and knowledge always elevate human life and most usually find practical application.
2. verb While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
3. verb Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
4. verb Elevate her feet.
5. verb Elevate your feet.
Sentence  
verb
New truth and knowledge always elevate human life and most usually find practical application.
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
Elevate her feet.
Elevate your feet.

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