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Definition of the day : « jack up »
- As in jump : verb increase
- As in lift : verb move upwards; ascend
- As in lift : verb promote, improve
- As in magnify : verb enlarge, intensify
- As in raise : verb increase, augment
- As in boost : verb increase
- As in buttress : verb support, bolster
- As in add : verb adjoin, increase; make further comment
- As in upraise : verb elevate
- As in uprear : verb elevate
- As in admonish : verb warn, strongly criticize
- As in aggrandize : verb cause something to seem or be greater, bigger
- As in elevate : verb lift up
- As in enlarge : verb make or grow bigger; increase
- As in enrich : verb improve, embellish
- As in amplify : verb increase in size or effect
- I had the Jack up since the morning and began to feel safer.
- Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad
- To adjust rear wheel bearings, jack up rear axle and remove both rear wheels.
- Extract from : « Essex Terraplane Six 1933 Owner's Manual of Information » by Anonymous
- He'd had to jack up his schooner and build half a mile of ways before he could get her back into the sea.
- Extract from : « A Son Of The Sun » by Jack London
- It did not take Uncle Toby long to jack up the car, take off the tire, put in a new tube, and be ready to start again.
- Extract from : « The Curlytops and Their Playmates » by Howard R. Garis
- If we jack up that bonetrepannin, he called it toohis brainsd git to be like anybody elses.
- Extract from : « Short Stories of the New America » by Various
- I think I'll jack up our boys in the city room by hinting that there may be a shake-up coming under the new owner.
- Extract from : « The Clarion » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- You can jack up the back part of an automobile when you could not possibly lift it up.
- Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
- If we jack up that bone'—trepannin', he called it too—'his brains'd git to be like anybody else's.'
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
- The red-headed one set a soldering iron in place and began to jack up the rear wheel to get at the tire.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 » by Various