Elevate vs. Propel — What's the Difference?

Raise or lift (something) to a higher position

To cause to move forward or onward.

Raise to a more important or impressive level

To cause to develop or progress

To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift.

(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward.

To increase the amount or intensity of

To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

To promote to a higher rank.

To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level

Cause to move forward with force;

To lift the spirits of; elate.

Give an incentive for action;

(Baseball) To throw a high pitch, usually a fastball, after a series of lower pitches, especially in an attempt to get a strikeout.

(transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.

(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

(transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

(transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

(transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

(transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).

(dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).

To lift the spirits of (someone)

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

(obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

Elevated; raised aloft.

To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.

To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.

To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.

To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; - said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;

Raise from a lower to a higher position;

Raise in rank or condition;