Definition of Uplift

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Uplift

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

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Uplift Quotations

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Paul Harris

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
Doug E. Fresh

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.
Lawrence Hargrave

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Robert MacNeil

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
Gladys Knight

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Mickey Hart

Uplift Translations

uplift in German is erheben, hochheben
uplift in Italian is esaltare

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