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elevatingverbpresent participle of elevate to fill with great joyseeing their son ordained as a priest was one of the most elevating moments in their lives elating, enrapturing, exhilarating, intoxicating, transporting commoving, exciting, inspiring, stimulating, upliftingcontenting, delighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, rejoicing, satisfying, warming depressing demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiritingdistressing, oppressing, saddening to move from a lower to a higher place or positionthe old trick of using a fat phone book to elevate a child to a more comfortable position at the table boosting, craning, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, raising, taking up, upholding, uplifting, upping, upraising ascending, mounting, risingrearing, upending dropping, lowering descending, dipping, falling, pitching, plunging, slippingbearing, depressing, pressing, pushingsinking, submerging to move higher in rank or positionthe announcement that the pope will elevate several prelates to the rank of cardinal advancing, promoting, raising, upgrading forwarding, furtheringaggrandizing, boosting, heightening, improving, lifting, upliftingcommissioning, ennobling, knightingacclaiming, applauding, celebrating, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decoratingeulogizing, exalting, extolling, glorifying, hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting kicking upstairs abasing, degrading, demoting, downgrading, lowering, reducing deposing, dethroning, dismissing, expelling, impeaching, ousting, overthrowing, removing, unmaking, unseatingdemeaning, disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, mortifying, shaming, taking downcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, reprobating to assign a high status or value toa decade in which greed and selfishness were elevated to the rank of virtues aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, dignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, exalting, glorifying, magnifying boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingheightening, intensifyingidealizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, sugarcoatingacclaiming, extolling, honoring, lauding, praising abasing, degrading, demeaning, humbling, humiliating belittling, decrying, depreciating, detracting, disparaging, minimizing |