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

Every upheave seemed to be followed by a downward settling plunge, as though the ship were already on her way to the bottom.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram

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

Miles—for though that speck in the sky into which they upheave their mighty altitudes, be doubtless an eagle, we cannot hear its cry.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

"Yes; they'll have the all-firedest upheave there, before long, that ever tore a hole in the bottom of the sea."

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Every day of my life I will upheave my soul from its inmost fastenings, and not suffer a blur to settle upon it.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

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