Clues for the word "LIFT"
We've had 116 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 263 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on November 29, 2025.
Definition of lift
- n. - The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- v. t. - To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
- v. t. - To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- v. t. - To bear; to support.
- v. t. - To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- v. t. - To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
- v. i. - To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- v. i. - To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
- v. t. - To live by theft.
- n. - Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- n. - The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- n. - Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- n. - That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- n. - A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- n. - A handle.
- n. - An exercising machine.
- n. - A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- n. - A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- n. - A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- n. - One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- n. - A layer of leather in the heel.
- n. - That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
Referring Clues
- Ride
- Pick-me-up
- See 61-Down
- See 83-Down
- Plagiarize
- Good feeling
- Pick up
- Boost
- Good news on a gloomy day, e.g.
- Brit's elevator
- Hitchhiker's request
- Stop, as a boycott
- English elevator
- Raise
- Ride, in slang
- Take the wrong way?
- Elevate
- Emotional boost
- Hitchhiker's desire
- Morale booster
- 51-foot ride (4)
- Hitchhiker's need
- Essex elevator
- London elevator
- Defy gravity
- Air force
- Pump iron
- Hoist
- What wings provide
- Elevator, in England
- Cheerleader's move
- Buoy
- Use weights
- Hitchhiker's ride
- "___ Every Voice and Sing"
- Male cheerleader's move
- "___ every voice and sing ..."
- Elevator, in London
- Shot in the arm
- Pilfer
- Clue for 17-, 26-, 45- and 60-Across
- Liverpool elevator
- Garage apparatus
- Boost vertically, or boost from a store
- Edinburgh elevator
- Hitchhiker's hope
- Roadside request
- Elevator, to a Brit
- Elevator
- See 107-Across
- Hitchhiker's objective
- Free ride
- An airfoil provides it
- British elevator
- Stop, as an embargo
- Jack up
- Heightening shoe device
- Garage contraption
- Feature of a London skyscraper
- Uber offering
- Ski
- Rescind
- Connector of English stories
- Heeltap
- Work with dumbbells
- Steal an elevator
- Shoe insert
- Poets of the Fall song that will pick you up?
- Raise - shot in the arm
- A ride giving heightened pleasure?
- Start to rise and flit, crossword setter style
- Flit around with upward movement
- That boost kleptomaniacs get when they steal?
- See 9
- Set up a digital process to do a little work
- See 24 across
- It operates at different levels
- Steal a free ride
- Hitching hope
- Hitcher's hope
- What a tonic provides
- Raise or elevator
- Copy left Independent paper
- See 17
- Encouragement needed by us all, if truth be told
- Pinch a free journey
- Pick up line provided by team's leader
- Raise line provided by trawlerman, initially
- Take elevator
- See special instructions
- Device inside which awful if trapped?
- Pick up from the floor
- Work out with barbells
- Hitchhiker's wish
- Do bench presses, say
- Steal, so to speak
- Hitcher’s hope
- Apprentice possibly fit to move up
- Follower of face or fork
- Work out with kettlebells
- Boost up
- Does it steal up and down?
- Raise with a crane
- Pump some weights
- Pick up, like a weight
- Use your legs to save your back when you do this
- Do something elevating as you flit around
- That boost kleptomaniacs get when they steal?
- "Need a ___?"
- Pick up like a barbell
- A ride giving heightened pleasure?
- Facial repair
- Use gym weights
- Pump some iron
- Work out with weights
- Big moment in a pairs figure skating routine
Last Seen In
- Daily American - November 29, 2025
- LA Times - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 26, 2025
- Daily American - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 09, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 27, 2024
- LA Times - November 20, 2024
- Daily American - November 07, 2024
- Daily American - October 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 28, 2024
- USA Today - May 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 01, 2024
- USA Today - March 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 07, 2024
- USA Today - February 05, 2024
- LA Times - January 11, 2024
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