elevate
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～ give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
elevate
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～ raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
elevate
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～ raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
elicit
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～ call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
elicit
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～ derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
elicit
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～ deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
elide
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～ leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
eliminate
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～ terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
eliminate
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～ eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
eliminate
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～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
eliminate
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～ remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
eliminate
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～ dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
eliminate
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～ remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
elocute
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～ declaim in an elocutionary manner; "The poet elocuted beautifully"
elongate
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～ make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric"
elope
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～ run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"
elucidate
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～ make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
elucidate
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～ make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"