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the act of raising something; a ride in a car; the act of giving temporary assistance; one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot; a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg; a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground; transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable); plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building; a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill; the event of something being raised upward; the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity; remove from a surface; take off or away by decreasing; remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; remove (hair) by scalping; put an end to; rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; raise in rank or condition; call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs; make audible; take (root crops) out of the ground; take hold of something and move it to a different location; move upwards; pay off (a mortgage); perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face; invigorate or heighten; annul by recalling or rescinding; fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; move upward; raise from a lower to a higher position; make off with belongings of others; take illegally; take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property; rise up

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