private, service
The hotel has a private lift linking it to the beach.

baggage, goods, passenger, wheelchair
electric, hydraulic

go down in, go up in, take
We took the lift down to the ground floor.

operate

serve sth
The lift serves the top four floors of the building.

arrive

button
doors
shaft
attendant, operator

ski
chair (usually chairlift), gondola (BrE)

take
operate

car
operator
pass
You'll need your lift pass for the ski lifts.

free

ask for, hitch, thumb
We stood by the roadside and thumbed a lift.

give sb, offer sb
accept
Don't accept lifts from strangers.

a lift back, a lift home
He offered us a lift home.

big, great, huge, real
Winning the semi-final gave the team a huge lift.

emotional

give sb
get

almost, half
He hugged her, almost lifting her off the ground.

fractionally, a little, slightly
slowly
sharply
Her head lifted sharply

carefully, gently, gingerly
Carefully lift the cake off the tray and cool on a wire rack.

easily, effortlessly
bodily
She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors.

back, down, out, up
She lifted back the sheet.

can barely, can hardly
The box was so heavy I could barely lift it.

try to
manage to
be too heavy to

above
He stood, legs apart, arms lifted above his head.

down
She leaned on him and he half lifted her down the stairs.

from
He felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

into
The heavy beams were lifted into place.

off
She lifted the book up off the table.

out of
He lifted the baby out of its cradle.

over
She lifted the child over the fence.

to
Juliet nodded, lifting her face to David's.

completely
partially
The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.

agree to, decide to, vote to
The government decided to lift the ban on arms exports.

refuse to

Lift is used with these nouns as the subject:
brow, cloud, darkness, depression, eye, eyebrow, fog, gloom, hand, mist, mood, mouth, shoulder, spirit, win

Lift is used with these nouns as the object:
arm, bag, ban, barrier, beaker, binoculars, blockade, boycott, brow, burden, ceiling, censorship, chin, control, cover, cup, curfew, curse, dividend, dress, earnings, embargo, eye, eyebrow, eyelid, fist, flap, floorboard, foot, game, glass, gloom, hand, hatch, head, hip, immunity, injunction, leg, lid, martial law, mood, morale, moratorium, phone, prohibition, rate, receiver, restriction, sanction, siege, skirt, spirit, suitcase, tariff, threat, top, trophy, veil, weight