lift up

verb lifts up · lifting up · lifted up

1. transitive To elevate to a higher position. In short, all those whom the gentry had despised, those whom they had trodden into the dirt, people with no place in society, people with no right to speak, have now audaciously lifted up their heads. They have not only lifted up their heads but taken power into their hands.
2. transitive To exalt the mood of someone. Ending the evening with an Abba song really lifted up the crowd.
3. transitive To raise the volume of (one's voice). The congregation lifted up their voices in praise.