"raise someone's consciousness" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: raises someone's consciousness [present, singular, third-person], raising someone's consciousness [participle, present], raised someone's consciousness [participle, past], raised someone's consciousness [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} raise someone's consciousness (third-person singular simple present raises someone's consciousness, present participle raising someone's consciousness, simple past and past participle raised someone's consciousness)
  1. To increase a person's awareness of, and often sympathy for, an issue, cause, or condition. Related terms: consciousness raising Translations (to increase awareness): Bewusstsein wecken (German), Bewusstsein schaffen (German), Aufmerksamkeit lenken auf (German), Aufmerksamkeit richten auf (German), Blick richten auf (German), Achtsamkeit erhöhen (German)

Inflected forms

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