One soldier's face, carefully crafted in cast metal, is the unmistakable chiseled likeness of Dr. Rudy Moise, the wealthy Miami physician, lawyer, would-be movie star, and now candidate for U.S. Congress who paid $120,000 to commission the monument. Jaws drop.
Definition of elevate. elevated. ; elevating. transitive verb. 1 : to lift up or make higher : raise elevate a patient's leg exercises that elevate the heart rate. 2 : to raise in rank or status was elevated to chairman.
Princeton's WordNet(2.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition: 1  elevation, lift, raising(noun) the event of something being raised upward. an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon; a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity.