upheave

American  

[uhp-heev] / ʌpˈhiv /

verb (used with object)

upheaved, uphove, upheaving

1. to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.

2. to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.

3. to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.

   The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country.

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verb (used without object)

upheaved, uphove, upheaving

1. to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.

upheave British  

/ ʌpˈhiːv /

verb

1. to heave or rise upwards

2. geology to thrust (land) upwards or (of land) to be thrust upwards

3. (tr) to disturb violently; throw into disorder

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Other Word Forms

• upheaver noun

Etymology

Origin of upheave

First recorded in 1250–1300, upheave is from the Middle English word upheven. See up-, heave

Example Sentences

Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

Others will upheave the blacksmith's hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter's bench, or take the lapstone and the awl, and learn the trade of shoe-making.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven.

From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Cooke, John Esten

I never did, and many years went by; Then, near a Southern port, one Christmas Eve, I watched a gale go roaring through the sky, Making the cauldrons of the clouds upheave.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

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