1.raise from a lower to a higher position;

Raise your hands

2.take hold of something and move it to a different location;

lift the box onto the table

3.move upwards;

lift one's eyes

4.move upward;

The fog lifted

5.make audible;

He lifted a war whoop

6.annul by recalling or rescinding;

He revoked the ban on smoking

7.make off with belongings of others

8.raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;

hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car

9.invigorate or heighten;

lift my spirits

10. raise in rank or condition;

The new law lifted many people from poverty

11. take off or away by decreasing;

lift the pressure

12. rise up;

The building rose before them

13. pay off (a mortgage)

14. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

15. take illegally;

rustle cattle

16. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;

Food is airlifted into Bosnia

17. take (root crops) out of the ground;

lift potatoes

18. call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

19. rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;

The floor is lifting slowly

20. put an end to;

lift a ban

21. remove (hair) by scalping

22. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;

lift the tulip bulbs

23. remove from a surface;

the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table

24. perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face