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Uplift

Up-lift’, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. UPLIFTED (UPLIFT, obs. or poet.); p. pr. & vb. n. UPLIFTING.] To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm.

Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

Ŭp'lift, n.

noun

n. (Geol.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

A diagram showing layered rock strata uplifted and displaced along a central fault. — Uplift Dislocation in Strata of Rock or Slate.