elevate

IPA: ˈɛɫʌveɪt

(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
(transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
(transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
(transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
(transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
(transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
(obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

Examples of "elevate" in Sentences

The side of the ground is elevated.
The majority of the province is elevated.
The only way to elevate is to increase the intrinsic worth.
And somehow, the sometimes-typoed subtitles elevate the whole thing to a higher comedy.
It is true that fabric, construction, and a designer name on a label elevate the price of clothing.
"Here's an effort to identify people who are very, very good and title them differently to kind of elevate them from the crowd."
The public works department considered that a wage of 8s. a day was enough to elevate a kafir job 'to the level of civilized labour.
Good spelling and proper punctuation and knowing when to end a paragraph are certainly important, but they are not enough to elevate a word mechanic to greatness.
Objectivism then proceeds to "elevate" the pupil to true malignant narcissism by demonizing "altruism" -- Rand's term of art for all the empathetic values -- and lionizing sadism.
Getting behind Lieberman is the only thing to do, because it will again elevate the Democratic Party's inability to prosecute the War on Terror and inability to provide for our National Security on the national stage, thereby providing a great many votes for Republicans all across the country this November.