LIFT Copy link • LIFT 1. v. tollere: extollere: attollere. To lift up, erigere, levare, allevare, sublevare (to raise from the ground); excitare (to raise that which has sunk; as, the head): to lift up one’s self, se erigere; surgere; assurgere (to stand up, rise): to lift up anyone with the hand, manu allevare aliquem: to lift up the hands, manus tollere: to lift up the hands to heaven, tendere manus, or manus supplices ad caelum: to lift up hands against anyone, manus tentare in aliquem or alicui (with hostile purpose): to lift up the eyes, oculos erigere, tollere; to anything, suspicere aliquid: figuratively, to lift up one’s heart or soul to God, *animum convertere ad cogitationem Dei: to lift up the thoughts to things above, *animum ad coelestia tollere: to lift up the voice, vocem intendere (opposed to vocem remittere). 2. s. use the verb; e.g., to give a lift; i. e., To LIFT.