What part of speech is uplift?

Uplift can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. uplift is a verb, present, 1st person singular of uplift (infinitive).
  • 2. uplift is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. uplift is a noun, singular of uplifts.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does uplift mean?

Definitions

Verb

uplift - lift up or elevate
uplift - lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
uplift - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"

Noun

uplift - a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts
uplift - (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

Examples of uplift

#   Sentence  
1. verb Music can uplift your spirits.
2. noun As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.
Sentence  
verb
Music can uplift your spirits.
noun
As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.

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