After I finally told my mother about my concerns, I felt as if a 'weight had been lifted from my shoulders'. [=I felt very relieved]
The company has been trying to improve the quality of its products without 'lifting' [=(more commonly) 'raising'] prices.
The beauty of the sunrise 'lifted her spirits'. = Her 'spirits lifted' when she saw the beauty of the sunrise.
(..) Knucklehead walks into a bank with a telephone... not a pistol, not a shotgun... a fucking phone. Cleans the place out. They don't even lift a fucking finger. Did they hurt the little girl? I don't know. Probably never was a girl in the first place. The point isn't the girl. The point is... (..)1994 Pulp Fiction