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▸ verb: (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
▸ verb: (computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
▸ verb: (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
▸ verb: (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
▸ verb: (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
▸ verb: (dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)
▸ verb: (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
▸ verb: (obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.
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