gather up vs elevate

gather up and elevate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gather up	No	No	Yes	No
elevate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, elevate is a hypernym of gather up; that is, elevate is a word with a broader meaning than gather up:

Other hypernyms of gather up include bring up, get up, lift, raise.

gather up (verb)	elevate (verb)
take and lift upward	raise in rank or condition
gather or collect	raise from a lower to a higher position
	give a promotion to or assign to a higher position