elevate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift.
2. v. To increase the amplitude, intensity, or volume of.
3. v. To promote to a higher rank.
4. v. To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level.
5. v. To lift the spirits of; elate. See Synonyms at lift.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To move or cause to move from a lower to a higher level, place, or position; raise; lift; lift up: as, to elevate the host in the service of the mass; to elevate the voice.
2. To raise to a higher state or station; exalt; raise from a low, common, or primary state, as by training or education; raise from or above low conceptions: as, to elevate a man to an office; to elevate the character.
3. To excite; cheer; animate: as, to elevate the spirits.
4. Hence To intoxicate slightly; render somewhat tipsy.
5. To make light or unimportant; diminish the weight or importance of.
6. Synonyms To lift up, uplift.
7. To promote, ennoble.
8. 1-3. Lift, Exalt, etc. See raise.
9. Raised; elevated.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
2. v. transitive To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
3. v. transitive To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
4. v. transitive To lift someone's spirits; to elate.
5. v. transitive To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Poetic Elevated; raised aloft.
2. v. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise
3. v. To raise to a higher station; to promote.
4. v. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer.
5. v. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify.
6. v. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds.
7. v. Colloq. & Sportive To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
8. v. A Latin meaning, obsolete To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. raise in rank or condition
2. v. raise from a lower to a higher position
3. v. give a promotion to or assign to a higher position