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How to sign: raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"; "Lift a load";
See also: pick up, lift up, gather up
Similiar / Same: lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Within this category: chin, get up, heighten, hike, hoist, hoist, hoist, jack, kick up, levitate, pick up, pinnacle, pump, raise, rear, shoulder, skid, trice, underlay
How to sign: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic
"raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain";
Similiar / Same: conjure, conjure up, invoke, call down, bring up, call forth, arouse, put forward, evoke, stir
Within this category: bless, curse
How to sign: increase
"This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension";
Similiar / Same: enhance, heighten
Categories: compound, deepen, heighten, intensify
Within this category: potentiate
