JACKS (UP) Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

jacks (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of jack (up)

as in hoists

to lift with effort jack up the car so we can change that tire

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as in lifts

to move from a lower to a higher place or position local restaurants jacked up their prices for the summer tourist season

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Head coach Dusty May of the Michigan Wolverines hoists the trophy after defeating the UConn Huskies 69-63.

— Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 22 June 2026
Another 103 matches – including six in Santa Clara – will be played until one of the 48 countries hoists the iconic gold trophy on July 19 in New Jersey.

— Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 7 June 2026

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One where technology protects, connects, and lifts people up.

— Alain Berset, Time, 6 July 2026
Bovary is in some sense a morality tale, but what lifts it above didacticism, along with its bone-deep interiority, is that its romantic plotlines are as addictive as the genre works that have ruined poor Emma Bovary.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Definition of lifts

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In another video, an emergency worker heaves a large stone aside while working to free people from the wreckage.

— Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 25 June 2026
Moscow’s next move, as its skyline heaves with sooty smoke, must be to find a way to accept its weakness, and accommodate it, while not projecting anything other than strength.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 June 2026

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Fuller, who is represented by attorneys Geoffrey Tabor and Timothy O’Reilly, raises antitrust and breach of contract claims that have become familiar in college athlete litigation.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 July 2026
But a lengthy rollout raises questions about whether the model can become a scalable solution to the state’s housing crisis — the sale comes more than two years after the state made such transactions possible.

— Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

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