Other forms: elevated, elevating, elevates
To elevate is to lift to a higher position or status. Elevate the leg, elevate the discussion, elevated to the peerage.
In first aid, elevating an injured limb reduces swelling by letting fluid drain, which is the R and E of rest, ice, compression, elevation. Figuratively it means raising in rank or in quality: elevate the tone, elevated to a senior post. Note elevated, meaning raised — an elevated railway, an elevated temperature; and elevator, the American word for a lift.
1verbelevateTo lift to a higher position.
“Keep your injured ankle elevated on a cushion.”
2verbraiseTo raise in rank or quality.
“The novel elevated her from an unknown writer to a household name.”
elevate is a raising.
Also accepted in games: raise
Latin elevare is e plus levare, to lighten or raise, from levis, light. Lever, levity and relieve come from the same lifting.
Latin
ēlevātus
Middle English
elevaten
English, today
elevate
Built from
From Middle English elevaten, from und + elevat, from Latin ēlevātus. From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) + -en, further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ex- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō; see levity and lever.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA