Lifting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIFTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIFT, to raise higher
• raise to a higher position or level
• move upwards; be raised
• (of a cloud, fog, etc.) move upwards or away
• increase (a price or amount)
• hit or kick (a ball) high into the air.
• improve the rank or position of (a person or team)
• perform cosmetic surgery on (part of the body) to reduce sagging
• dig up (plants or root vegetables)
• pick up and move to a different position
• transport by air
• enable (someone or something) to escape from an unpleasant situation
• formally remove or end (a legal restriction, decision, or ban)
• carry off or win (a prize or event)
• steal (something)
• arrest (someone)
• move (one's eyes or face) to face upwards and look at someone or something
• increase the volume of (one's voice)
• raise (a person's spirits or confidence)
• (of a person's mood) become happier
• use (a person's work or ideas) without permission or acknowledgement
NOUN:
• a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels
• a device incorporating a moving cable for carrying people up or down a mountain
• a built-up heel or device worn in a boot or shoe to make the wearer appear taller or to correct shortening of a leg.
• an act of lifting
• upward force exerted by the air on an aerofoil or other structure, counteracting gravity
• the maximum weight that an aircraft can raise
• the tendency of a ball bowled to rise sharply on bouncing.
• a rise in price, level, or amount
• an instance of stealing or plagiarizing something
• a feeling of confidence or cheerfulness
• a free ride in another person's vehicle
ADJECTIVE:
• Used in, or for, or by, lifting.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move to a higher position

Words related to LIFTING

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How to use LIFTING in a sentence

• The Boy, lifting tired eyes, saw something white glimmering high in the air up on the right river bank.
• They said she had injured herself in some way in lifting the furniture.
• When on his horse, he turned round, and, lifting his hat to her, took a last glance.
• In lifting it from the cabinet, he was struck by its great weight in proportion to its size.
• When she smiled it was as if the spirit of her small brooding face took wings and fluttered, lifting delicately the rather heavy corners of her mouth and eyes.
• The watchers saw it lifting white And ghostlike from the pool of night.
• The next instant a surging column of water was raised, lifting the Albemarle as though the great iron-clad were of feather weight.
• With those words and no more, lifting her hand she waved him back from her, and went on her way again, as we had first found her, alone.
• If I wind a clock, I have spent a certain amount of energy lifting the weight.
• Thomas, who kneels to her, his drapery in beautiful folds about him, lifting his hands in prayer.
• Round this is a framework which carries a lifting and falling arrangement that travels to and fro along the vat.
• In short, the Anglo-Saxon is efficient, in whatever he sets himself about, whether in crushing the weak, or lifting them up.
• And she began to put the flowers in the water, lifting them carefully and slowly one by one.
• I saw, and crept softly behind her, then, lifting the Watcher, I dashed him down with all my strength.
• Liza began to play, and went on for some time with-out lifting her eyes from her fingers.
• In the morning, the rain clouds lifting for a moment, Marie saw the narrow yellow line of the slip.
• His comrades and he at first thought that the hissing came from an escape of steam, but upon lifting up his head he found that it was high up in the air.
• If when tender they are lacking in juice, add a little boiling water long enough before lifting from the fire to allow it to boil up once.
• Shadowy men were lifting pale shrouds off the counters.
• That was a tremendous going down, and a yet more tremendous lifting up.
• Lifting the fingers high is not good for the tone, though it may be used for velocity playing.
• Verner, stood the housekeeper, Tynn, lifting her hands and her eyes.
• Robert grew alarmed and lifting a cloth began to wipe the blood from her mouth, looking on her so concerned and anxious that she tried to smile to him to reassure him.
• And she was lifting up her head and singing a song, and the sound of it as melancholy as a gib-cat in a garden of cucumbers.
• Very softly the Prince crept past the guards, and lifting the curtain from the door, looked in.
• Then he bent and took hold of Leonie, lifting her bodily from her seat into his arms, crushing her desperately against his breast.

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